First Publication Date: 3rd March 2009
The CDDL was formulated by Sun Microsystems for development and distribution of some of its software. The license is considered to be one of the most popular licenses. Some of the softwares released under CDDL include, OpenSolaris, NetBeans IDE and RCP, GlassFish, JWSDP and so on.Rights
Any person receiving a software under CDDL gets a world wide, non-exclusive and royalty-free license
over the software. The license grants the following rights over the software:
Copyrights
The…
First Publication Date: 25th March 2008
Introduction
The Lesser General Public License("LGPL") is a license used by the Free Software Foundation for software libraries. The license governs all open source software libraries of Free Software Foundation and many others who choose to use it. LGPL defines terms and conditions for copying, modification and distribution of software libraries. Version 3 of LGPL incorporates all provisions of the General Public License ("GPL") and lays down certain additional permissions for software libraries.
Rights
A software library governed…
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COPYRIGHT QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"A brainy person does not abuse copyright;…
This presentation is titled "Intellectual Property and Business" and was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala to the students at the Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore (IIMB).
The presentation covers the following topics:
- Party Conversation
- Intellectual Property and its forms
- Patents
- Illustrative Example - Elfot
- Prior Art for Elfot
- Industrial Designs
- Trademarks
- ELFOT – trade mark
- Copyrights
- Trade Secrets
- Integrated Protection
- Licensing Matrix
- The Dravidian
- Dr.Kalyan's Books
You may access the full presentation here:
The presentation is intended to serve as…
The following presentation titled “IP Licensing”, was delivered on 25th May, 2016 by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Managing Partner, BananaIP Counsels, at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) on IPRs and Licensing for the Executive Management Programme.
The topics of the presentation included:
Case study on a software that assesses the mood of a person titled ‘MOODS’
IP in MOODS
Licensing Program
Example of competing software, using the same process as MOODS. Whether such software is…
The following presentation was delivered by Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Managing Partner BananaIP Counsels, at the Indian Institute of Management , Bangalore. The presentation is titled “Intellectual Property (IP) Licensing" and covers the following topics:
Examples
IP in MOODS
Licensing Program
Examples
Licensability
Examples
Basic License Provisions
Important clauses
Recitals
Definitions
Examples
Grant Clause
Examples
Term and Termination
Royalty Clause
Examples
Other Clauses
Open Source…
Intellectual Property (IP) is like any other business tool, and a company must know how to use it to gain business and financial value. Simply put, Intellectual Property can add value to a company, provided the company wants it to add value, invests in IP appropriately, and knows how to derive value from IP. Many companies lose out on value from intellectual property because of lack of commitment, investment or knowledge.
Value of IP Audits
As outlined earlier, an IP…
Case Experience 3 - IP Audit for a Start Up
The case experiences are based on the 120 audits we had performed in India over the last ten years. The audits gave us invaluable insights into the role of IP in business in the Indian context, and we have tried to encapsulate some basic results/learnings at a macro level through these experiences. The names of companies and business details have been consciously avoided to comply with confidentiality covenants and professional…
Case Experience 1 - IP Audit at a Large Multi-National Company
The case experiences are based on the 120 audits we had performed in India over the last ten years. The audits gave us invaluable insights into the role of IP in business in the Indian context, and we have tried to encapsulate some basic results/learnings at a macro level through these experiences. The names of companies and business details have been consciously avoided to comply with confidentiality covenants and…