Articles about intellectual property litigation and technical expert witnesses.
Printable PDFBest Practices in Software Source Code Discovery
Software has become ubiquitous. From microwave ovens to electronic throttle controls, it is now embedded into the fabric of our lives through billions of new products each year. Whether for infringement of intellectual property rights or product liability, when products controlled by software are the subject of litigation, it is imperative to analyze the embedded software, also known as firmware, properly and thoroughly.
Reducing Litigation Costs: Software Copyright Infringement Detection Tools
In a previously supported case of alleged software copyright infringement, the plaintiff brought suit against the defendant for allegedly continuing to use the plaintiff’s copyrighted software source code in the defendant’s products after termination of a license agreement between the parties. Fortunately, automated tools helped experts to quickly and inexpensively detect copying of software source code.
Dead Code, the Law, and Unintended Consequences
Dead code has been frequently encountered when conducting source code reviews for litigation. The presence of dead code can have unintended legal consequences and several scenarios have been observed in which dead code heightened the probability of a loss in court.
Intellectual Property Protections for Software
There are various intellectual property protections that are available to the creators of software. This primer will provide software engineers with a brief overview of some of the areas of IP law that are relevant to their work.
Cybersecurity and Embedded Systems
Embedded systems are either fixed or programmable combinations of hardware and software designed to perform a specific, pre-defined task within a larger mechanical or electrical system.