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Saturday, November 19, 2005
IP = ? 
| | I'm at the Intellectual Property panel, moderated by John Palfrey, who I thought was still in Tunisia. (Shows you how well prepared I was for this thing.) |
| | John observed that David Sifry, Halley Suitt and myself were seated in the front row, and might hypothetically represent "a new technology company." I immediately named the company Sibilant. |
| | "Intellectual Property" unpacked by Michael Rashid of Wilson Sonsini (WSGR): trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets. Four subjects, four different things. |
| | Karen Copenhaver of Black Duck is telling (for me) scary stories about patents. Here's one, sometimes done: patent an idea that's in the critical path of a giant company four years from now. A patent troll is somebody who has a patent but has no products. |
| | Karen also just compared software development to contract developent. That's how she describes it to lawywers. "How many people here start with a clean sheet when you write a contract? None. You go find an existing contract, and adapt and add to it." (Not verbatim, but close enough.) |
| | Jon Putnam of Charles River Associates, for his thesis, summed the value of all the patents in the world. Thireen years later... he said. His point: patents by themselves, at least for a new tech company, have no value. |
| | Michael Rashid: You are going to want to develop defensive patents, regardless. |
| | John just spoke encouragingly about patent sanity, mentioning Science Commons, among other things. Also said Josh Lerner is "amazing on this subject." |
Search this research
| | What's amazing is, I don't even know who does it. I do know it answers a lot of fun questions. And about a lot more than, well, just about every search enging you can name. GrabPERF has the IRS, eBay, Wikipedia, the CIA... |
More Geoff
| | Just got to talk for a few minutes to Geoffrey Moore, who told me he's starting a blog, which is very cool. I've been a fan of Geoff's for years, and a long-time employer (as are many of us, whether we know it or not) of his metaphors. Looking forward to see what Geoff has to say, now that he's crossed the Blog Chasm. |
Board vs. Bored
| | Sitting here with Halley in the Cyberposium at Harvard Business School. Unfortunately, there's no wi-fi here. Fortunately, I can use bluetooth through the cell phone. |
| | The panel before the room is New News is Good News. Folks from DFJ, Boston Globe, WJAR/10 TV, Boston.com, Technorati and Google News. |
| | I'm on IM with Dr. Weinberger, who just told me something that's so true: Bloggers are the editorial board now. Right-on. Gotta share that with the room. |
| | A panelist just talked about "extracting money from readers." Extract of reader. Mmmm. |
Later still
| | So I picked a bad time to be off the Web. The response to Saving the Net has been excellent — in comments, in emails, in blogs and elsewhere, including the Tucows holiday party here in Toronto last night, where a number of people came up to me with kind words about the piece. |
| | There was a power outage in parts of Toronto yesterday, so I barely got a chance to get on the Web at all. I missed my second Gillmor Gang in a row, too. Now it's 1am and I get up in several hours for an early flight to Boston, where I'll be at a couple of gatherings that will probably soak up most of my time there as well. |
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