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A Better Plan For Software Technology Rights

When
January 31, 2013

Where
WPI - Hagglund Room, Campus Center
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609

Mary Lou Wakimura, Principal at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds,  presented  "A Better Plan for Software Technology Rights" at WPI.

This seminar offered an introduction to software intellectual property rights in the form of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets.

  • Software patent protection is very different from traditional patent prosecution approaches
  • Learn what software can be the subject of eligible patent subject matter
  • What things would prevent or “bar” you from getting software patent claims
  • Discussion on open source, "copyleft" anti-patent strategies

 Please click here to see a video recording of the presentation.