Bugzappy's Blog » trade secret http://www.bugzappy.com on building internet apps Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:24:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code http://www.bugzappy.com/2009/04/01/intellectual-property-and-open-source-a-practical-guide-to-protecting-code/ http://www.bugzappy.com/2009/04/01/intellectual-property-and-open-source-a-practical-guide-to-protecting-code/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:30:27 +0000 bugzappy http://www.bugzappy.com/?p=9 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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