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 [...]

IP “Crash Course” Online

Thanks to the sponsorship of Silicon Flatirons, TechStars, the Longmont Entrepreneurial Network (or “LEN” for short), and Colorado Capital Group we were able to put on a great Intellectual Property “Crash Course” for Entrepreneurs presentation at the end of last month before a standing-room-only crowd at the University of Colorado School of Law. [...]

BSC SaaSy Slides Online

Albeit a bit belatedly, I would like to thank the Boulder Software Club and my co-presenters Kirk Holland (General Partner at Vista Ventures), Don Hazell (EVP Worldwide Sales and Field Operations at Rally Software) and Jim Pollock (President of AWhere Inc.) for helping to put together a great event on The Challenges of [...]

Back to IP Basics

I was fortunate enough last year to sit through a number of extremely interesting investor pitch presentations given by entrepreneurs involved with various technology start-ups. While (not surprisingly) no presentation was completely focused on intellectual property, each took the time to address the role played by IP in their overall business strategy. Some, [...]

Open Source Compliance (On Your Own Terms)

As Sean Michael Kerner mentioned in a recent article over on InternetNews to which I contributed, the BusyBox lawsuits are one example of the increased scrutiny being applied to open source license compliance (and open source in general). For those of you following open source legal issues, this scrutiny should not come as much [...]