Posted on December 4, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
Last night I had the pleasure of presenting a “Crash Course” on Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs at the University of Colorado here in Boulder. The presentation was well attended (especially given that it was the night of our first real snow storm for the season here in Boulder) and the Q&A following the presentation really [...]
Filed under: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Law, Patents, Presentations and Panels | Tagged: Bernthal, Copyright, New Venture Challenge, Silicon Flatirons, trademark, University of Colorado | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 15, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
As has been widely publicized in the industry, legal and even mainstream media, on August 13, 2008 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued its decision in the closely-watched case of Jacobsen v. Katzer. In its decision, the CAFC confirmed one of the core legal assumptions upon which the entire [...]
Filed under: Court Decision, Enforceability, Law, News and Alerts, Open Source | Tagged: Artistic License, CAFC, Jacobsen v. Katzer, Kamind | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 22, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
I will be in New York on August 8th to speak on a panel at this year’s American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting. The panel, titled “Life after GPLv3: New Developments in Open Source Software Licensing” is sponsored by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law and is being held at 2:00 PM on [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
Adding to the already substantial list of lawsuits filed on behalf of its clients Erik Andersen and Rob Landley (the two principal developers of the BusyBox open source utility), the The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced today the filing of yet another suit alleging copyright infringement based on a violation of version 2 [...]
Filed under: Busybox, Erik Andersen, GPL, Law, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: Extreme Networks, Summit X450 | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 11, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
News out of Boston that Red Hat has settled the long-running patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by Firestar Software and a later suit filed against the company by DataTern.
Filed on June 26, 2006, the lawsuit by Massachusetts-based software vendor Firestar Software, Inc. was brought against Red Hat in connection the Hibernate 3.0 software product [...]
Filed under: GPL, Intellectual Property, Law, News and Alerts, Open Source, Patents, Updates | Tagged: 6101502, Acacia, DataTern, Firestar, IP Innovation LLC, Red Hat, Technology Licensing Corp. | Leave a Comment »