Posts Tagged: Open Source
Limiting the Impact of Patent Assertion Entities on the Open Source Community
There has been a great deal of discussion over the years regarding patent trolls, also known as non-practicing entities (NPEs) and Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs). As most …
Your Developers Could Be Publicly Disclosing Source Code By Using Third-Party Code Repositories
Recently, I met with a potential client to discuss key points that developers and management should keep in mind in taking the first steps to begin developing …
Understory Earns U.S. Patents for Weather Sensing Technology
Understory’s first patent covers the sensor device itself which consists of a stainless steel sphere sitting on top of a shaft, a configuration which one of …
Google vs. the Luddites: A Patent Battle Neither Side Should Win
The idea that all software is obvious is a theoretical argument that doesn’t just border on the scattological, it wades right into the sewer. Consider artificial …
Negotiating Your First Big Tech Software License
One of the critical moments in the life of a start-up tech company is landing its first big contract with a giant tech company. That first tech …
Microsoft Announces Shared Innovation Initiative Encouraging Industry Partners to Patent Collaborative Innovations
On Wednesday, April 4th, the official Microsoft blog published a post written by the company’s president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, which announced the company’…
When Will Wall Street Wake Up to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises?
Reports about Musk’s talks with Cortica comes one day after Goldman Sachs analyst David Tamberrino affirmed his sell rating for Tesla stock on his expectation that …
Navigating the Uncharted Waters of the Blockchain
Driven by media coverage of extravagant returns for investors in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, among others, some of which have exhibited 100,000 percent or more …
IP Due Diligence for Start-ups in the 2018 Legal Environment – The Most Important Conversation
For IP due diligence for investment in a start-up or young company, the most important conversation is with the key developer(s) of the product(s) or …
Supplying Legal Notices for Free Software in your Products
This license, like many other Free Software licenses, require a legal notice to be given to the recipient when the software is distributed. Alas, it seems like …
The SEC Defines Blockchain, But Did They Get it Right?
The SEC has landed on a definition which includes both permissioned distributed ledgers and permissionless distributed ledgers in the term “blockchain.” This is not surprising, nor is …
How to Participate in Open Source While Maintaining IP Integrity
The key idea is to think strategically about the software, the value it can provide to the company, and whether the technology should be developed in-house. In …
Protecting IP in the Blockchain Sector
Blockchain technology has already disrupted the financial sector and new blockchain use cases are emerging every day -- from corruption-proof land registries to licensing digital assets, to …
Toyota Motors One-Ups Tesla, Makes Thousands of Royalty-Free Patents Available
Toyota is attempting to boost collaborative innovation in the field of vehicle fuel cell technologies by opening up thousands of patents for royalty-free use by other automakers. …
Creating Software Obviously Isn’t Easy – Part 3 with Bob Zeidman
"[F]or a living I reverse engineer code and testify in court. Yet I could not reverse engineer this code. Every time I touched it to make …
