ISBN: 9788182204119    Publisher: Global Vision Publishing House Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 496        Language: English

Written by an intellectual property attorney who is also a programmer, Intellectual Property and Open Source delivers an engrossing survey of the legal landscape and practical advice about situations you're likely to encounter when working on open source projects and pursuing new business ideas. This book encompasses nature and role of intellectual property right in technological development, Trade Mark and Service Mark, Geographical Indications, Industrial Designs, Copyright and related rights, Protection of new Plant varieties etc. Salient features of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism, the vision of a Global IPR Order, means of tackling software piracy and IPR Enforcement, WIPO, and the TRIPS agreement, have also been studied.
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Hyde William Cornish is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most, though, is translate - from "lawyer" to "engineer" and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. Before becoming a lawyer, Cornish was a research and development engineer at NTT/Verio, building automation tools and distributed systems, mostly in Python. He has been involved with open source since 1994, when a friend introduced him to Linux. Currently, he works for Grata law firm, New York. His work at Haynes and Boone touches both traditional intellectual property and the emerging field of open source law, where he advises businesses and open source groups on intellectual property issues.
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