Derek Handova
Derek Handova is a project-based corporate content marketer and freelance journalist who has contributed to TechCrunch, B2B News Network, Talkin Cloud, Intelligent Utility, Economy Lead and InfotechLead. You can also find him on Medium expressing independent views on technology trends and issues of the day. He started his career in the consumer publishing sector working for automotive publications associated with Motor Trend and Hot Rod magazine.
Posts by Derek Handova
Google v. Oracle and the Battle to Protect Software Via Copyright
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court invited the United States Solicitor General to file a brief expressing its views in the long-running case of Google LLC …
In the Era of Spotify and Pandora Where Do ASCAP and BMI Fit?
In traditional music recording, artists have had to choose to license their music through major music industry organizations like ASCAP and BMI. In the age of streaming …
Waymo v. Uber: a Gordian Knot Gets Tighter
In the annals of U.S. innovators, there are many infamous disputes between technology companies from Shockley and Fairchild in semiconductors to Microsoft and Apple in operating …
How the U.S. Can Inspire the Next Generation of Innovators
An unfounded belief persists that entrepreneurs are the primary innovators. However, in a study of the top 30 innovations of the last 30 years up through 2009, as judged by …
7 Marketing Best Practices for IP Law Firms
How should intellectual property law firms firms market their legal services to potential clients? In the golden age of attorneys before the 1977 Bates v State Bar of …
How ‘The Donald’ Does Intellectual Property
Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States (POTUS), managed to get elected based at least in part on his real or perceived success as …
The Difference Between Eastern and Western Innovation Management
In the intellectual property (IP) space, knowledge workers come from both Eastern and Western cultural backgrounds. In Silicon Valley and other hubs of innovation, the melding of …
How to Write Enforceable Non-Compete Agreements
One of the most egregious reasons that states make non-compete agreements (NCAs) unenforceable remains the broadness of the agreements that for all practical purposes bans an individual …
How Can Corporate Policies Best Encourage Innovation?
in hyper growth startups and other companies that rely on knowledge workers, the agenda for these value makers must remain as clear as possible. However, sometimes intellectual …
How Can You Protect Cannabis-based Intellectual Property Under Federal Prohibition?
What started as a curiosity in Colorado and Washington state in 2012 could have gained the momentum of a juggernaut: marijuana legalization. Now with California and other states …
What can Alexander Graham Bell Teach us about Patent Filing?
The popular story goes that Alexander Graham Bell and the second man to file USPTO paperwork related to invention of the telephone, Elisha Gray, did so on …
Who’s Winning: Big Law Moving into IP Practice or IP Boutiques Holding Their Own?
As the dearly departed Prince once sang, it could be a sign of the times. Only in this case the reference is about big law firms moving …
Conversational Commerce: How Technology Raises the Bar for Customer Interaction
Now with smartphones always-on and within reach 24/7, the way businesses need to communicate information to customers is through their mobile devices. And statistics show that the preferred …
How Can More Lawyers Become Tech Company CEOs?
Most CEOs won’t make a move without first consulting their general counsel or other legal adviser. But the general counsel seldom rises to the CEO spot. …
How do Estates Monetize Images and Intellectual Property of Dead Celebrities?
With the deaths of Prince and David Bowie earlier in the year, the process by which celebrity estates monetize the images and other intellectual property (IP) of …
