Patents and Copyright and Trademarks… Oh, why!?

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Explains concrete legal outcomes: patents grant ~20 year monopolies and hide their scope in functional claims that read like “a circuit configured to…”; copyright lasts life plus ~70 years and underpins every software license; trademarks control logos and names; patent assertion entities drive litigation and hit 40% of startups. Describes defensive measures actually built and used: a defensive patent pool via Open Invention Network and a prior‑art database called Linux Defenders that aims to deter bad patents.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:31Not allowed
3. 12:40The Patent Bargain
4. 14:00What is not patentable?
5. 18:58Software Patent Grants
6. 19:24Patent Suits Involving "NPES"
7. 22:12What can you do?
8. 24:27Photo Credits

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