Paul Berwin - What IP? Whose IP?

Presented at Hey! #29 on 8th February, 2018.

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1. What IP? Whose IP?
   

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2. Why Paul?
   

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3. What are IP rights?
   • Patents
   • Copyright
   • Design right
   • Trade marks
   • Database right
   

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4. Tales from the trenches
   Business
   Intelligence
   Company
   

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5. Tales from the trenches
   Care Company
   

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6. Tales from the trenches
   Tour de France
   

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7. Main issues in creative/tech
   • Which rights?
   • Have you got a right to use?
   • Who owns the rights?
   • Not the idea – the expression of
   the idea
   

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8. • Innovative
   • Industrial application
   • 20 year monopoly right
   • Not business methods
   • Not software
   • Expensive – IPO
   Patents
   

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9. Copyrights
   • Software, sound, words,
   pictures – a creative act
   • Not copied
   • Automatic
   • 70 years from the date of
   creation (in most cases)
   

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10. • Object code
    • Protection of source code (except
    open source, copyleft or
    restrictive/permissive licences)
    • Look at BI case study
    • What happened?
    Licensing Software
    

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11. Trade Marks
    • Original word or graphical
    representation
    • Mark of origin
    • Original – not descriptive, not
    geographical
    • What happened with the Tour
    de France campsite?
    

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12. Whose IP?
    • Why the care
    business problem?
    • Employer vs
    Contractor
    • No assignment?
    

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13. Whose IP?
    • Unintended
    consequences
    • What happened
    with the care
    company?
    

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14. What isn’t IP?
    X Domain names
    X Company names
    X Own names
    

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15. IP’s all around
    • Layers of IP
    • Easy to copy IP
    • Value in IP
    • Protecting IP
    

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16. Paul Berwin
    paulberwin@berwin.co.uk
    

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