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Session
Intellectual Property Law Basics for Open Source Developers
Jack Emery
Track: Emerging Topics
Date: Thursday, July 10
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Location: Salon I
Tutorial outline:
- Why open-sourcers should care about intellectual property (IP) law
- A true story: how to make someone else rich by being naive about IP law
- Ignoring patents won't make them go away
- Patents as a tool to advance open-source goals
- Understanding the weapons in the IP law arsenal and how they work
- Patent law basics
- What is a patent
- What does a patent cover
- What kinds of software inventions are patentable
- How do you get a patent
- How much does it cost to get a patent
- What good is a patent when you have one
- Copyright law basics
- What is a copyright
- What does a copyright cover
- How do you get a copyright
- How are copyrights enforced
- Why a copyright isn't a substitute for a patent
- License basics
- Licenses as contracts
- License enforceability issues
- Why a license isn't a substitute for a patent
- Understanding IP strategy
- IP as an offensive weapon: how infringement litigation works
- Big company IP strategy
- Building 'patent fences' around products
- Exploiting the inability of the patent system to deal effectively with software
- IP strategy for the 'little guy'
- IP strategy for the open-source developer
- Why the GPL and other open-source licenses are not enough
- Threats on the horizon
- The privity gap
- Where to go from here
- Sources of additional information
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