| Title |
Author |
Category |
Date Added |
dl# |
Rating |
| Copyright and Open Source Licensing of Software Work |
Pratibha Gupta |
Other Intellectual Property |
2/24/08 |
335 |
9/10 |
| Abstract: | Copyright law does not protect any particular idea. Rather, copyright protects only the expression of that idea.
The fundamental purpose of open source licensing is to deny anybody the right to exclusively exploit a work. Typically, in order to permit their works to reach a broad audience, and, incidentally, to make some sort of living from making works, creators are required to surrender all, or substantially all, of the rights granted by copyright to those entities that are capable of distributing and thereby exploiting that work.
There are about 66 types of Open source Licenses approved and recommended by Open source initiative. The General Public License is the most common license. Their basic idea in imposing such a restriction, the so-called Copyleft , was to ensure software access to developers and to prevent software from being captured by proprietary software interests. The Linux operating system and programs associated with Linux are mostly licensed under GPL licenses.
Open Source Software licensing has established a new means of creating Intellectual Property - a resource for creating more business prospects, especially, covering those areas of technology where the quick turn around is must to create and generate more revenues. |
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| Determining entity status |
Heidi S. Nebel |
Other Intellectual Property |
10/16/04 |
267 |
7/10 |
| Abstract: | Small and large entity businesses are subjected to different governmental fees. |
| Keywords: | small entity patent fees |
| How is your IP worth? |
Sylvain Roy |
Other Intellectual Property |
10/4/04 |
1085 |
10/10 |
| Abstract: | This brief article introduces the techniques of IP Valuation, the difference between patent valuation and product valuation, and the importance of assessing the economic value of IP, products and technologies for business operation and risk management.
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| Keywords: | IP Valuation, patent, brand, marketing, M&A, license |
| Void Employment Agreements by Outsourcing Companies in India |
Vinod Kumar Singh |
Other Intellectual Property |
11/3/07 |
163 |
5.6/10 |
| Abstract: | The globalization of knowledge and proven potential of Indian people lead to the emerging outsourcing business.
Almost every contract of employment in India contains a non-objective privacy and confidentiality clause, and is widely recognized as one of the important clauses in the employment contract. However in India it is generally restricted to the period during the subsistence of services, and any restriction beyond that has been recognized as unreasonable restriction by Indian Courts. This aspect of contract employment is governed and regulated by Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 which provides that every agreement by which one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind is to that extent void.
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| Keywords: | employment, contract, outsourcing, India, Vinod, confidentiality, restrict |
