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Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code

April 1st, 2009
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Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code, Van Lindberg, O’Reilly,  July 2008

The first few chapters cover intellectual property principles from the ground up: patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks. For someone who knew some of these concepts better than others, it was a useful recap. Some typical software IP litigation cases are covered, enough to understand how the 4 types of IP can play out in the real world. Lastly the legal principles behind open-source licenses, and distinctions between the most popular of them, are presented. What I found lacking in the book is some form a strategic advice for protecting various types of software assets, for a software startup.

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