MATTO Seminar:
Protecting and Commercializing Software Inventions
December 14, 2016 3:30pm-5:00 pm
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Dear MATTO members,
You are invited to a MATTO seminar on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 3:30pm:
"Protecting and Commercializing Software Inventions"
Software, data, and information assets are the backbone of the digital economy with the potential to impact nearly every technology sector. Despite this, identifying effective measures to protect software and digital assets is a challenge, particularly since consistent and reliable government guidelines related to software and digital assets are elusive. This talk and discussion will provide an overview of the past, present, and future of protecting and commercializing software inventions and code.
Topics include:
- A review of US copyright law as it pertains to software code and data
- A review of relevant court decisions on patenting software
- Thoughts for patenting software in a post Alice world
- Strategies for protecting your digital assets (algorithms, code, data, and trade secrets)
- Open source
- Prognostications for what the future holds for this area
Please join us and participate in a fruitful discussion with two expert practitioners.
Speakers:
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Daniel Dardani, CLP, MIT Technology Licensing Officer
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Rory Pheiffer is a partner in Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
The seminar is free but you have to register on this link or by clicking on the button below
Refreshments and Networking at 3:30 - 4:00 PM.
Speaker Bios:
Daniel Dardani
Daniel Dardani, Technology Licensing Officer, is a patent and licensing professional at the MIT Technology Licensing Office - the country's premier technology transfer office. With over 13 years of experience licensing a large and sophisticated portfolio of computer and software related technologies, Daniel has helped university inventors and outside entrepreneurs utilize and effectively develop university technologies into commercialization opportunities for many business ventures from startup companies to global corporations. Daniel is a Certified Licensing Professional, and also co-teaches a survey course on intellectual property matters at Harvard University's Summer School. Daniel also serves as an advisory board member to the Fashion, Arts, Media and Entertainment Law Center at Cardozo Law School.
Rory Pheiffer
Rory P. Pheiffer is a partner in Nutter's Intellectual Property Department and a member of the firm's Emerging Companies and Life Sciences practice groups. Rory is well versed in a wide range of intellectual property issues, including software and technology licensing matters. Clients rely on the expertise Rory continues to develop while protecting client's inventions in several technical areas, including: medical instruments and devices; biotechnology; microfluidic applications; thermovoltaics; electronics and lighting; printing devices; 3-D printing; image scanning and detection devices; digital cameras; and software and mobile applications. In view of the mechanical engineering training that Rory obtained earning his degree at MIT, Rory often describes his technical versatility as extending to "anything that moves and isn't alive."
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