On the heels of Yahoo suing Facebook for patent infringement followed by Tim Armstrong at AOL saying “hey Wall Street – look at me – I’ve got great patents also “, Andrew Parker (Spark) wrote a post that brought me out of my “intellectual property depression” titled  Open Source and For-Profit Companies. MORE >>

When navigating the complex legal landscape of open source software (“OSS&# ), it’s critical to understand that where OSS is concerned, free does not mean free. Restrictive licenses can create problems for software developers who want to legally protect and license their work based on OSS or code used in conjunction with OSS. MORE >>

One of the biggest, most frequent mistakes I see as an intellectual property attorney is a startups’s lack of ownership to all of the exclusive rights to the intellectual property created for it. Jill Hubbard Bowman is an intellectual property attorney who helps startup companies own their IP. MORE >>

Set popular media to the side for a moment, and let’s talk about other engines of Austin’s success – silicon, software and information technology. Tags: Digital Featured Freshtech Friday intellectual property plagarism It’s been said: “Imitation is the sincerest forms of flattery.&# Are they for real? MORE >>

I’ve spent a lot of time fighting in court about intellectual property ownership and cleaning up startup’s IP messes. In the many years I’ve been practicing intellectual property (“IP”) law, I’ve seen a wide range of mistakes and bad practices that have cost emerging growth companies millions of dollars.  MORE >>