Paul Berwin - What IP? Whose IP?

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

1. What IP? Whose IP?
2. Why Paul?
3. What are IP rights? • Patents • Copyright • Design right • Trade marks • Database right
4. Tales from the trenches Business Intelligence Company
5. Tales from the trenches Care Company
6. Tales from the trenches Tour de France
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
8. • Innovative • Industrial application • 20 year monopoly right • Not business methods • Not software • Expensive – IPO Patents
9. Copyrights • Software, sound, words, pictures – a creative act • Not copied • Automatic • 70 years from the date of creation (in most cases)
10. • Object code • Protection of source code (except open source, copyleft or restrictive/permissive licences) • Look at BI case study • What happened? Licensing Software
11. Trade Marks • Original word or graphical representation • Mark of origin • Original – not descriptive, not geographical • What happened with the Tour de France campsite?
12. Whose IP? • Why the care business problem? • Employer vs Contractor • No assignment?
13. Whose IP? • Unintended consequences • What happened with the care company?
14. What isn’t IP? X Domain names X Company names X Own names
15. IP’s all around • Layers of IP • Easy to copy IP • Value in IP • Protecting IP
16. Paul Berwin paulberwin@berwin.co.uk