Maintenance
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[edit] Hardware
Maintenance is “the servicing of the machine in order to make it work in accordance with its original specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized for that machine. . . .”[1]
- “[T]he term ‘maintenance’ has a much broader temporal connotation [than ‘repair’]. The Senate Report on section 117 characterized ‘maintenance’ as including ‘checking the proper functioning of [ ] components.” . . . Thus, maintenance, or ‘servicing,’ was meant to encompass monitoring systems for problems, not simply fixing a single, isolated malfunction.”[2]
[edit] Software
Software maintenance is the modification of a software product after delivery to correct faults, to improve performance or other attributes, or to adapt the product to a modified environment.
[edit] References
- ↑ 17 U.S.C. §117(d)(1).
- ↑ Storage Technology Corp. v. Custom Hardware Engineering & Consulting, Inc., 421 F.3d 1307, 1312 (Fed. Cir. 2005).
