Here are my new podcasts about software intellectual property and software development relating to IP issues. I believe you’ll find them useful. The Software IP Detective’s Handbook About Software Copyrights About Software Trade Secrets About Software Patents The Software Clean Room Process

In August I debated the impact of software patents at the Computer History Museum (you can watch the debate here). I asked members of the audience how many were programmers or had  written software. A large number of hands went up. I then asked  those people to put their hands down if they thought what [...]

People have been asking me lately what I think about those organizations that buy up patents and license them or sue infringers. Kindly known as non-practicing entities (NPEs), patent licensors, or patent aggregators, they are disparagingly called “patent trolls.” However, there is a much more troubling entity out there that I want to bring to [...]

My book on software intellectual property has just been published by Prentice-Hall.

Peter Huber at the Manhattan Institute argues in the Wall Street Journal that software patents discourage innovation and must be disallowed or restricted. Dr. Huber’s facts are wrong and his conclusion is wrong.

S.A.F.E. has recently announced the release of DocMatch, a new tool for comparing all kinds of documents to find plagiarism.

In the past few years I’ve been interviewing students for job openings at my companies. Some students came from large, well-known universities while other came from small colleges. Some students had bachelor’s degrees in computer science while others had master’s degrees. One thing that many of these recent graduates had in common was that they couldn’t program competently.

You can now run CodeMeasure for free to graph the growth of your software project development effort over multiple versions of the software. CodeMeasure uses the Changing Lines of Code (CLOC) method to calculate the growth.

Social network games have burst onto the Internet with amazing speed and popularity. There’s a lot of money to be made and a lot of users to capture. There’s also a lot of copying going on. Some of that copying is legitimate and some is infringement. Our Online IP Screening Service found code in common between Zynga’s FarmVille and CrowdStar’s Happy Aquarium game. Was is illicit, perfectly allowed, or just coincidence

Sometimes a full-course meal is more than you need, have time for, or are willing to pay for. Sometimes fast food just hits the spot. That’s why we’re introducing CodeSuite-LT, a lower priced version of CodeSuite with most of the functionality at much lower cost.