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With the growing dependence on remote and electronic forms of communications to maintain their competitive business advantages, many professional firms have incorporated the very popular BlackBerry line of wireless e-mail and paging systems into their daily business operations. Among its many specialized applications, the BlackBerry system allows users to send and receive e-mails without physically accessing a computer, thereby dispensing with the need to tow laptops or locate a dial-up Internet service for this purpose. In a short time, the mobile device has become infamously addictive, even earning the moniker “Crack- Berry”. However, recent rulings from the leading U.S. court on patent law and the U.S. Supreme Court have renewed the possibility that U.S. service to the versatile BlackBerry may be halted.

 

In making plans and designs, landscape architects demonstrate creative and technical skills that differentiate them from competitors. Copyright laws reward their creativity by providing financial incentives. Specifically, these laws grant copyright owners a limited monopoly to exploit their creations. Copyrights are intended to motivate the creative activity of authors and artists, including landscape architects, by granting owners exclusive rights over reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution of copies, performance, and display of the copyrighted works. The laws also promote public access to designs after the limited period of exclusive control expires.