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Intellectual Property
Published in G. K. Awari, Sarvesh V. Warjurkar, Ethics in Information Technology, 2022
G. K. Awari, Sarvesh V. Warjurkar
After all, the businesses that use such apps built and own them. Using this method on a bought software product created and approved by third parties, on the other hand, is a different story. Since the app owner does not currently hold the access to the software, most IT administrators will consider this behavior immoral. Compilers and decompilers are methods that are used in reverse engineering. A compiler converts statements written in a source language (such as Java, C, C++, or COBOL) into machine language (a series of binary 0s and 1s that the computer understands). When a software company sells software to a customer, it usually does it in machine language. Reverse-engineering compilers, also known as decompilers, can read computer code and generate source code. Reverse Engineering Compiler, for instance, is a decompiler that reads an executable machine-language file and transforms the text to a C-like representation. Decompilers and other reverse-engineering methods may be used to expose the source code of a competitor’s software; it may then be used to create a new software that mimics or interacts with the original. As a consequence, reverse engineering may be used to access material that has been copyrighted or designated by another business as a trade secret. The use of reverse engineering to allow interoperability has been approved by the courts.
Fundamentals of Continuous Improvement
Published in John Nicholas, Lean Production for Competitive Advantage, 2018
Even after making the technological leap, it is essential to immediately begin incremental improvement to remain competitive. This is necessary because today the process called reverse engineering, whereby one company takes apart another’s invention, analyzes it, copies it, and improves it, has become a high art. Though inventions and intellectual property are protected through laws and the efforts of groups such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (a United Nations agency), reverse engineering often gets around such protection. Personal computers are an example. Most components are off the shelf, and only the central processing unit (CPU) is patented. By studying the CPU, a competitor can learn its functions and design one that functions virtually the same without violating laws. The point is that simply being the originator of an idea or the first to introduce it does not guarantee that the inventing company will retain any advantage. The leader will be the company that successfully improves and commercializes the invention.
Reverse Engineering Using Auto Trace and FeatureWorks
Published in Godfrey C. Onwubolu, Introduction to SOLIDWORKS, 2017
Reverse engineering is very common in diverse fields such as software engineering, entertainment, automotive, consumer products, microchips, chemicals, electronics, and mechanical designs. For example, when a new machine comes to market, competing manufacturers may buy one machine and disassemble it to learn how it was built and how it works. A chemical company may use reverse engineering to defeat a patent on a competitor’s manufacturing process. In civil engineering, bridge and building designs are copied from past successes so that there will be less chance of catastrophic failure. In software engineering, a good source code is often a variation of other good source codes.
Reverse engineering from 3D mesh to ceramic product in the form of miranda kerr tea for one teapot in PT doulton Indonesia
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2021
P.W. Anggoro, A.R. Tan Wijaya, T. Yuniarto, A.P. Bayuseno, J. Jamari, M. Tauviqirrahman, D.B. Setyohadi
Reverse Engineering, from an industry perspective, is currently considered as one of the engineering techniques which provide a short product development cycle (Oancea et al., 2013; Vinesh & Kiran, 2008) with real benefits in product customization. It is also applicable at the final stage of rapid product development with the fabrication of different industrial parts and tools such as molds, molds, and press tools (Oancea et al., 2013; Sokovic & Kopac, 2005). It has, however, not been maximally applied by engineers in the modern ceramic industry as a reliable design tool to produce ceramic designs with artistic ornaments or to pursue similarities in shape and precise geometry from competitors’ products in order to increase competitive advantage.