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The trend has been for courts to say that even if there are non-literal SSO similarities, there must be proof of copying.

Competitors may create programs that provide essentially the same functionality as a protected program as long as they do not copy the code.

Some relevant court decisions allow for reverse-engineering to discover ideas in a protected program that are not subject to copyright, within a protected program.

whichThe canideas thencan be implemented in a competing program as long as they do not copy the original expression.{{sfn|Yusuf|2008|pp=51-52}}

With a [[clean room design]] approach one team of engineers derives a functional specification from the original code,

and then a second team uses that specification to design and built the new code.