And Who Says Entrepreneurs Don’t Care About IP?

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 [...]

ABA Open Source Panel in New York

While much of the open source community was in San Francisco last week at the LinuxWorld Expo , I was in New York at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association (ABA) speaking at the “Life after GPLv3: New Developments in Open Source Software Licensing” event organized by the ABA Section of Intellectual [...]

Heading to New York?

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 [...]

Intellectual Property and Sarbanes-Oxley?

What does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (or “SOX”) have to do with intellectual property you ask? While these two topics have historically made for strange bedfellows, the importance of managing intellectual property assets and issues surrounding those assets under Sarbanes-Oxley is increasingly becoming a potential trap for the unwary.
Passed into law in 2001 [...]

OSBC 2008 Presentations Online

Last week marked the completion of another very successful Open Source Buinsess Conference (OSBC) in San Francsico.  Presentations from OSBC 2008 are now online.
Included among those presentations is my presentation on Putting Open Source Compliance to Work (On Your Own Terms).  The presentation covers a lot of ground, but is focused on providing companies that [...]