TAG: intellectual property

Jeff Shieh, Sr. Patent Attorney - inovia

This year the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a report examining how the capacity for American small business to create jobs is at risk due to the high costs of acquiring, maintaining and enforcing patents outside of the United States.

Hank Jones - Law Office of Henry W. Jones, III

Lawsuit pleadings deliver robust case studies of "train-wreck" software business situations. Studying lawsuits can save serious screw-ups in several segments of your business. One example is a big-bucks battle that began in 2009 and ended only days ago. It offers actionable lessons for strategy, product design, product development, launches, marketing, licensing, compliance, and exit events. Over $1,000,000,000 depended on a recent lawsuit in Austin, Texas between NEON Enterprise Software and IBM. What are its facts and lessons?

Jeremy Aber

A recent news story got my attention, as I think it is a great example of when to buy a patent for any software or SAAS company. You may have heard of Groupon. If you haven't, then read about it because it is a very interesting business model. But the angle for you is to learn about how (from my perspective) they are using patents to beat new startups trying to compete with them.

Jeremy Aber

As a software copyright attorney/lawyer, I think every Software, SAAS or Cloud company should think about this issue, even though this is a complex legal issue. Most software companies know that they can obtain copyright protection for their source code, but what about their GUI? Well it depends.

Chris Roon, Partner - Marketing Arts

Mike Gregoire is formerly an executive director at EDS, EVP at PeopleSoft and currently Chairman and CEO of Taleo. Since joining Taleo in 2005, Mike has taken the company public and steadily grown the revenues and customer base throughout the world through execution of internal development plus acquisitions of technology and related competitors. In this Sandhill interview, he discusses proven strategies, overcoming challenges and upcoming trends impacting the software industry.