Sarah Leins-Zurmuehle - Ideation, Conceptualization, Realization: Discovering the Creative Scope in Software Engineering From the Perspective of Copyright and Patent Law

Dissertation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich

to obtain a Doctoral degree

submitted by:
MLaw Sarah Leins-Zurmuehle
of Weggis LU

supervised by:
Prof. Dr. iur. Florent Thouvenin
and
Prof. Dr. iur. Andreas Heinemann

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