Two Businessess & An IP Fracas
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A basic intellectual property presentation relating to patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret issues at the Alexandria Small Business Development Center.
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Two Businessess & An IP Fracas
- 1. A Tale of Two Small Businesses & An IP Fracas Antigone Peyton Cloudigy Law
- 18. Setting the Stage Doomsday has a patent covering parts of the Super Public Defender software program Doomsday hasn’t registered anything with the Copyright Office Doomsday considers its customer list a trade secret It uses a basic employee and contractor agreement that doesn’t say anything about Intellectual Property rights Doomsday thinks it’s wrong for Heaven’s Arms to use some of its website material for a website associated with Heaven’s Arms’ games
- 20. Software Patents
- 21. Patent Analysis Compare Patent Claims to Final Appeal software product If product is covered, then it infringes the patent Doesn’t matter whether Heaven’s Gate knows about patent Doomsday can get money or an injunction
- 22. Heaven’s Arms Website
- 24. Website No registrations Copyright Text, Images, maybe some code Trademark Icons, Logos, Images
- 25. Trade Secrets
- 26. Trade Secrets Customer list can be a trade secret in some circumstances Depends on what Doomsday does to protect it and whether it treats it like a trade secret
- 27. Factors to Consider Employee & contractor agreements restrict access & use Technical and practical steps taken to protect it Competitive advantage to business to keep it a trade secret Each situation is different
- 28. Jack Ryan’s Software Code
- 29. Employee Agreements They don’t discuss what happens if employees invent something, or create something that is protectable by trademark, copyright, or trade secret law Problem!!
- 30. Jack Ryan’s Work Code for several software games made up some game images for the company created some artwork for several games added potential customer contacts he knew personally to the customer list
- 32. Questions?? Antigone Peyton, Esq. President & Founder, Cloudigy Law (703) 436-2033 antigone.peyton@cloudigylaw.com Twitter: @antigonepeyton; @cloudigylaw Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CloudigyLaw LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/antigonepeyton Cloudigy blog: http://cloudigylaw.com/news/