Commercial Intellectual Property - Creation, Protection and Exploitation of Software

July 25, 2009

David Reilly was invited to speak 24 July 2009 at Open Coffee which is a forum for Technology Start-Ups in Cork, on the Creation, Protection and Exploitation of Software.  Full details can be found here: http://www.itcork.ie/index.cfm?page=news&newsId=1276 

The event was very well attended both on and off line and thanks are due to Open Coffee and Gordon of Murrion Software www.murrion.ie who organised the event, Denise Kennedy of CIT allowed the use of the Rubicon premises www.cit.ie and Roland Stenmetz of Shared Vision ( http://blog.netbriefings.com/sharedvisions) for allowing the event to be viewed on-line from as far away as Munich!

The talk covered the following areas:

- Legal background to ownership of Software – VCs and The Exit Strategy
- Protection and Infringement of Software
- Exploitation of Software – how to get it right from the very start

The PowerPoint slides can be viewed on-line at: www.corkopencoffee.org 

If you have any queries on the slides or wish David to speak at an event on this or another commercial topic then please just call us discuss.

Please contact David on dreilly@dreilly.ie for further information on this topic or any other legal problem or matter.

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