Open Compliance Summit 2024

Intellectual property rights (IPR) help drive competition, innovation and differentiation for software companies. But, overly aggressive companies and Non-Practicing Entities look to hinder growth or extract unjustified value. Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network, will share IPR strategies while addressing ways to mitigate risk to open source software projects, investors, companies and their developers. While differentiation higher in the software stack should garner significant IPR, the sharing of foundational technologies much lower in the stack significantly increases innovation, while lowering everyone’s costs. This presentation will discuss the key tenets around patent non-aggression in open source, ways to ensure IPR higher in the software stack and best practices that open source projects and companies should consider moving forward. . Key Takeaways: - Ways to differentiate and effectively compete in a software industry increasingly dependent on open source software - An understanding of the patent threat matrix to open source platforms and companies - Best practices for managing IPR higher in the software stack