A PRIMER ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSING (Second Edition) is a compact, practical guide to one of the most dynamic and popular areas of legal practice today-intellectual property licensing. Developed by an attorney in private practice who specializes in Silicon Valley technology licensing, this guide presents the basic rules of law you need to know for a licensing practice, along with helpful examples of contractual language, practice tips, and insights on custom and practice in the industry. This textbook is appropriate for a law school or business school seminar, or for practicing attorneys who wish to expand their practice into this exciting field. Individual chapters from this text are also available for seminars and CLE presentations (in electronic format).
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Heather Meeker is an attorney in private practice at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, a leading technology law firm in Silicon Valley, and specializes in drafting and negotiating intellectual property transactions for software and other technology clients. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law, teaching a seminar in intellectual property licensing, for which this textbook was developed. Ms. Meeker has degrees from Yale College and Boalt Hall School of Law. She clerked for the United States Circuit Judge John Porfilio of the Tenth Circuit. Ms. Meeker has published numerous law review articles and practice-oriented articles in the area of law and technology, and has a special interest in open source software licensing. She serves as the co-chair of the Open Source committee of the ABA’s Science and Technology Law Section, and in 2005 was selected by the Daily Journal as one of the top 30 intellectual property lawyers in California. She also worked for many years in the entertainment and computer industries, prior to her work as an attorney.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Good guide to licensing nuances,
By Joseph E Hustein (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Primer on Intellectual Property Licensing (Paperback)
This is a tremendously useful book. Writing a good intellectual property license is not a simple undertaking. There are many permutations and combinations as well as subtle nuances. This book delves deeper into those areas than non-lawyer books which is intentional since this book was written as a course book for law students. For those with no prior legal background, this book may not be as accessible as books clearly aimed at do-it-yourself licensors.
I note in another opinion there is criticism of the format. Although the book does not look like a typeset textbook, it is nonetheless entirely usable and I think easier to read in its full business letter size than truncated classic books. It is the content that is paramount and here it is plentiful. If you are a law student, a new associate in a law firm, or a newbie in a company, this is the book to get to start you down the road toward becoming a competent licensing attorney, especially in software licensing. Joe Hustein
4.0 out of 5 stars
A compact and useful resource,
By Zak Greant "Free Software/Open Source Advocat... (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Primer on Intellectual Property Licensing (Paperback)
Works on intellectual monopoly licensing tend to be an uncomfortable mix of weighty and impractical. At best, they are comprehensive. At worse they are distractions from the real task at hand.
Heather Meeker's book is a refreshing contrast that provides practical and practicable advice on how to negotiate and craft agreements in this broad field. The material is ideal for business people and well suited to students beginning their studies. A small weakness is that the (small) coverage on Free Software and Open Source software licensing is relatively useless to those who do not already know the area. Small warts aside, it is a very useful book. I look forward to the 3rd edition.
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