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Podcasts on software intellectual property and software development

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

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The Software IP Detective’s Handbook

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

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IP theft is becoming the new target for cyberthieves

Antivirus company McAfee and R&D company SAIC recently published a report entitled Underground Economies, a study of corporate IP theft. According to the study, many cyberthieves now see stealing IP as more profitable than credit card theft and identity theft.

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ADFSL 2011 Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The ADFSL 2011 Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law is a small conference that’s focused on practical results as well as academic research. I attended last year, and presented a paper, and found it interesting and informative. I heard from law enforcement officials, the kind of people you don’t often meet at these types of conferences.

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Zynga and CrowdStar, copying or coincidence?

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

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SAFE introduces CodeSuite-LT

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.

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Multiprocessing CodeSuite-MP

Learn about the multiprocessing version of CodeSuite.

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The Report Generator (RPG)

The Report Generator (“RPG”) is a new program from SAFE that automatically generates draft expert reports and declarations for litigation.

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The value of corporate secrets

Forrester Consulting just put out a report that I found interesting. According to Forrester, chief information security officers (CISOs) face increasing demands from their business units, regulators, and business partners to safeguard their information assets. Security programs protect two types of data: secrets that confer long-term competitive advantage and custodial data assets that they are compelled to protect. Secrets include product plans, earnings forecasts, and trade secrets; custodial data includes customer, medical, and payment card information that becomes “toxic” when spilled or stolen. Forrester found that enterprises are overly focused on compliance and not focused enough on protecting their secrets.

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Interesting software IP cases of 2009

There were a number of large lawsuits involving software IP in 2009. We know that CodeSuite was used in many of them (because of protective orders, we don’t know all the cases where CodeSuite was used).

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