by Brian Prentice | December 20, 2010 | 6 Comments
Two weeks ago, the New South Wales state government became the third government jurisdiction in Australia – along with the federal government and the Victorian state government – to change the intellectual property rights (IPR) provisions of their IT procurement policies so that ICT suppliers would, as a starting position, retain ownership of the IP [...]
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by Brian Prentice | August 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
Having just read two recent articles on why software patents need to be abolished, I thought it would be worth pointing out that there’s something a whole lot worse. Trade secrets. To be clear, I have no disagreement with the underlying principles of the anti-software patent argument. I share the view that innovation must be [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 31, 2010 | 19 Comments
Attention corporate IT customers – this blog post is for you. If you haven’t already had an “open-core” software vendor knocking on your door you probably will be soon. It’s important that you’re able to separate the hype from the substance when you hear them talk of their innovative business model. Open Core, if you’re [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 23, 2010 | 8 Comments
Last week I had the pleasure to participate at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco (thank you Matt Asay). I ran into a lot of very smart and very committed people and had some deep and meaningful conversations about the future of open source. Regardless, I was left with a deep impression that [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Nick Wingfield wrote an entertaining piece for the Wall Street Journal describing the challenges facing Microsoft employees who have chosen to use an Apple iPhone. As Wingfiled points out, iPhones are in plain site on the Redmond campus. But that doesn’t sit well with many Microsoft executives who see this as little different than Coca [...]
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by Brian Prentice | March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
I’m gobsmacked. Flummoxed even. Sometime I run across things I have to read a couple of times just to make sure I’m not hallucinating. A recent set of utterances by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has been one such case. It appears that the IIPA have recommended that Indonesia be added to the US [...]
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by Brian Prentice | February 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
Lately I’ve been reading “Burning the Ships: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Microsoft” – a book written by Marshall Phelps (Microsoft’s VP of Intellectual Property Policy & Strategy) and David Kline (co-author of “Rembrandts in the Attic”). While I’m reserving the right to write up a proper book report (my 5th grade teacher would [...]
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by Brian Prentice | December 27, 2009 | 6 Comments
Like all good things, holidays must also come to an end. And as I proudly survey my complete lack of accomplishment over the last couple of weeks I can’t help but notice the harbingers of an important new season. Gift wrapping, once tightly wound around its cardboard tube has long since been shredded, crunched up [...]
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by Brian Prentice | June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments
Recently, I reached out to both Intel’s Chief Patent Counsel, David Simon, and Google’s Head of Patents and Patent Strategy, Michelle Lee with two specific questions. Does your organization currently license any of its patents to other organizations? Can you categorically state, for the record, that all patents your organization current holds, or is planning [...]
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by Brian Prentice | May 13, 2009 | 11 Comments
Today, TechCrunch columunist MG Siegler was conjecturing on the potential of a patent lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft. This, he reasoned, could result from Microsoft using their multi-touch technology in a potential Windows Mobile 7 device which was reported today by Mary-Jo Foley. Both Apple and Microsoft have done quite a lot to advance the [...]
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