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Legal Protection for the Software Arts — Part 10

Finally, other than various state law trespass and common law claims, the most common form of protection for software is a simple contract. Unlike free and open source software, most commercial software products are...more

Kidon IP War Stories: David Cohen & Daryl Lim [Video]

Today our guest is Daryl Lim. Daryl is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law and Co-Hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State University. He also serves as Associate...more

Legal Protection for the Software Arts — Part 7

One of the other protections available for software that is collateral to copyright is codified in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DCMA prohibits third parties from circumventing technological measures the...more

Kidon IP War Stories - David Cohen & Bineet Bhasin [Video]

My next talk is my old partner in IP monetization, Bineet Bhasin. I first met Bineet in 2012 while I was at Vringo and he was at iRunway and we had an extremely fruitful and fun collaboration. Today Bineet is Vice...more

Kidon: War stories on the cutting edge of IP monetization 1st Episode [Video]

My first interview is with an old friend from the Nokia days, Donal O’Connell, founder of Chawton Innovation Services, and author. I have had the privilege to write a few pieces on trade secrets with Donal, but Donal has...more

Legal Protection for the Software Arts — Part 6

Due to the size and complexity of computer code, the software is usually created by a team of programmers. Consequently, to fully own software one must first make sure that each of the developers has relinquished any...more

Legal Protection for the Software Arts — Part 5

Copyright protection is, generally speaking, formality-free in the US and other member states of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. A software rights owner does not have to publish, affix...more

Legal Protection for the Software Arts — Part 4

To determine which computer program elements are copyrightable, the federal courts (which have exclusive jurisdiction over US copyright cases) commonly identify and analyze each of the program’s literal and non-literal...more

Legal Protection for the Software Arts — Part 2

As patent practitioners know, the law sometimes defines technical topics in ways that do not always accord with how engineers and scientists understand those same topics. With that, since this series addresses legal...more

Employees or Independent Contractor Generated IP (Part 1)

This post will provide an overview of key IP issues encountered when dealing with employees and independent contractors. We will cover the default ownership rules and rights for different types of IP and some tips on how to...more

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