Patents are for babies: what every engineer should know about IP law
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Explains copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret tradeoffs with concrete examples: the Amazon one-click patent (assigned to the company), 20-year patent terms and patents take 2–4 years and cost ~$5k–$50k, the Supreme Court Alice v. CLS ruling that limits abstract software patents, Tesla publicly releasing many patents while keeping manufacturing trade secrets, 23andMe filing a controversial baby-design method patent, patent trolls profiting via licensing, and practical contributor options: MIT/BSD licenses, CLAs, and contributor assignment to a foundation.
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chapters (33)
- 0:00Start
- 3:39IP Law
- 3:56Copyrights
- 5:04Copyright ownership
- 6:25Copyright's bundle of rights
- 7:23Trademarks
- 8:19Trademark registration
- 12:30Patents were meant for good, right?
- 14:06Patents in software
- 16:06Patents are hard to get right
- 17:34Patents kill startups
- 19:51Patents are for babies (sorta)
- 22:10Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank
- 23:53Tesla Motors open sources their patents
- 27:16Trade Secrets
- 28:47Corporate IP strategy
- 32:59Licensing impacts
- 34:09Licensing TL;DR
- 34:58Licensing & Attribution
- 35:54Who owns a project
- 37:00Assigning rights back to the project
- 37:15Licensed contributions
- 39:05Arguments against CLAS
- 39:55Agreement (CAA)?
- 40:19Why Copyright Assignments
- 41:05Housekeeping tips
- 41:39Node.js
- 42:58Django
- 45:55PIA restrictions
- 46:41Navigating PIAS
- 47:39Closing
- 47:50Great Reading
- 48:22New ideas after the PIA
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