Ip and licensing 2015

Intellectual Property and Licensing

Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

kalyan@bananaip.comwww.bananaip.com

Blog: www.sinapseblog.comBooks: www.kalyankankanala.com

Idea

Mobile Application for tracking children. By using the App, parents can track the whereabouts of their children. The Mobile App connects with a tracking device placed in the child's belt, and gives parents real time status of the location of their kid. Can you protect this idea?

PatentInvention • Subject Matter• Utility• Novelty• Inventive Step• Enablement Term - 20 YearsExclusive Rights: Make, Use, Sell, Offer for Sale, Import

Protection Strategy• Spectrum - Generic to Specific• Applications• Fields• Markets

Spectrum

Tracking Tracking PersonsTracking Persons within an age groupTracking devicesPlacing of devices Other Applications/Fields?

Licensing

Options PatentProduct - App - Code Can you Protect the Code separately?

Copyright• Idea/Expression• Originality• Modicum of Creativity Subjects: Literary, Dramatic, Artistic, Musical, Cinematographic, Photographic, Sound Recording Term: Life Plus 60 YearsAutomatic Protection - Registration Exclusive Rights: Reproduction, Adaptation, Distribution, Communication to Public, Public Display, etc.

Protection

Mobile Application to Track Children. • Code• Interfaces• Reports• Documentation What if the App is built on Open Source?

Licensing• Proprietary - Free/Paid• Open Source/Commons• Hybrid

Thoughts?

Name of the App

Trade MarkRepresentation Distinctive and Not DeceptiveDomain NamesSocial Media Pages RegistrationTerm: Perpetual

• Fanciful - Tinder• Arbitrary - Tiny Owl• Suggestive - Urban Clap• Descriptive - NewsStand• Generic - App Store

Protection Ladder

• Brand Licensing• Merchandizing• Franchising

Licensing

Information

• User Data• User Patterns• List of Advertisers• List of Partners Can this be protected?

Trade Secrets

Any InformationIndependent Economic/Business ValueNot Known to othersReasonable Measures for Secrecy

Licensing

• Know How• Data• Technology

Look and Feel

InterfaceVisual Configuration of Devices Is this IP?

Industrial DesignsAppearance of a Product • New• Original• Ornamental/Aesthetic

Some BasicsTypes of Licenses • Exclusive• Non-Exclusive • Sole

Royalty Types• LumpSum• Fixed• Running

Important Clauses• Recitals• Definitions• Grant• Royalty• Term and Termination

Example

XYZ grants ABC a non-exclusive, royalty free, unlimited, perpetual, world wide license to use the Mobile Application for tracking children on Android devices in the territory of India. What is not granted?

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