Politicians and business leaders meet today in Geneva to thrash out what could be the first international guidelines on online intellectual property. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is hosting a 500-strong, two-day summit, in...
Honeywell, inventor of 1950s computer system - the D1000 - has started selling its intellectual property online. Honeywell joins the ranks of Boeing and Polaroid, which are already boosting revenues by licensing their intellectual property.
SCO, inheritor of many of the rights to the Unix operating system initially developed by AT&T, filed a billion-dollar lawsuit on Thursday alleging IBM violated its trade secrets by implementing ideas from Unix in the open source Linux operating...
The information IBM sought is at the heart of the case, a bold lawsuit SCO began in March that alleges IBM moved technology from Unix to Linux against the terms of its contract with SCO, violating trade secrets in the process.
It goes on to give the example of a case where "two competitors use a licence agreement to divide markets between them, or when an important licensor excludes competing technologies from the market," and adds that it's necessary to find the "right...
Josh Silverman, who was named Skype's president in March is confident Durchslag will help Skype innovate and bring new services to market. Skype said that while in that position Durchslag "led product strategy, innovation, intellectual property...