IP Fundamentals NYC

#ipFundamentalsINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOR DEVS

@ j e f f re y s t r au s s

lawyer

lawyer*BUT NOT YOUR LAWYER

lawyer*BUT NOT A PATENT LAWYER

some basics

”What is intellectual property?

~ mr. developer

”What is property?

~ me

rights && obligations

rights

possession

enjoyment

exclusion

disposition

obligations

legality

contract

”What is intellectual property?

~mr. developer

human mind

ip protections

protectionsCOPYRIGHT

TRADEMARK

PATENT

protectionsCOPYRIGHT

TRADEMARK

PATENT

TRADE SECRETS

copyright

authorship

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

~ William Shakespeare, 1564–1616

SONNET 18

The Drunkard Marc Chagall, 1912

#!/bin/bash

echo Hello World, I'm backing up... tar -cZf /var/my-backup.tgz /home/me

echo Done!

expression of ideas

any medium

automatic

© 2016

registration

trademark

identity

goods and services

automatic

automatic*ONCE USED IN COMMERCE

TM / SM

registration

®

patent

inventions

inventionsUSEFUL

NEW

NOT OBVIOUS

DESCRIBED

inventions ELIGIBILITY

no prior disclosure

not automatic

uspto

first to file

patentsUTILITY

DESIGN

PLANT

patentsUTILITY

DESIGN

PLANT

reverse engineering

patentsUTILITY

DESIGN

PLANT

patentsUTILITY

DESIGN

PLANT

limited protection

trade secrets

unregistered

no public notice

requiresSECRET INFO

COMMERCIAL VALUE

PROTECTIONS

confidentiality &

non-disclosure

independent discovery

getting rights

”Hey, I found this on Google!

~hopeful consumer

infringement

infringement != plagiarism

fair use doctrine

fair use COPYRIGHT

TRADEMARK

fair use COPYRIGHT

TRADEMARK

assignment

seller → buyer

license

licensor ⇢ licensee

licenseEXCLUSIVITY

TERM

RESTRICTIONS

open source

permissive v. copyleft

commercial

creative commons

what is one to do?

DISCUSS

EDUCATE

EMPOWER

become informedNEXT STEPS

consider your practices

make awesome

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