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(or the Art of fosteringinnovation
while protecting your assets)
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A long time ago in a country far,far away. . . .
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Venice, 1450
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First regulated patent system on a large scale,mostly in the field of glass making
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XVth century
Venetian merchants emigratedand spread the use of patents
Why would aFrench stateprotect theinterests of aVenetianmerchant?
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Inventor
Exclusive rightsfor commercial use
Society
Detailed public disclosureof the invention
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Exclusive right to sell an invention
An invention ispatentable if:
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• it’s novel
• it involves an inventive step
• it is industrially applicable
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Exclusive right to make copies of creative works that have been instantiated in a tangible form
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Innovation spread
through the silk road, the spice road, the sea lanes
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Truck ideas and Road ideas
“in this world there's two kinds of [ideas], my friend”
Scott Jensen
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Truck ideas…
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… and road ideas
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ROAD IDEA
TRUCK IDEA
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ROAD IDEA
TRUCK IDEA
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ROAD IDEA
TRUCK IDEA
HTTP
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“In The Road Ahead, Bill Gated predicted thatthe Information Super Highway would rule thefuture. In the first edition, The Information SuperHighway was to be the logical successor to theInternet, but definitely not using Internettechnology.”
November 1995,First edition
The Ben Horowitz leaks:
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ROAD IDEA
TRUCK IDEA
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ROAD IDEA
TRUCK IDEA
A little bit of background
1995
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2003
2007
2012
publishes
is born
acquires
sues
2006 licensed under
sues2010
The Google vs Oracle case
COPYRIGHT
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PATENTS DAMAGES
The Two Patents
6061520
RE38104
« Method and system for performingstatic initialization »
« Method and apparatus for resolving data references in generated code »
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The Copyright infringement
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37 Java packages alleged of infringement:
• rangeCheck function (9 lines)
• several test files
• structure, sequence and organization of the Java API
• API documentation
District court
April 31, 2012
“Anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry outexactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API.It does not matter that the declaration or method header lines are identical
Court of Appeals
May 9, 2014
“The structure, sequence and organization of an API are copyrightable”
Did Google infringe the copyright or was it a fair use?
Back to the District court
Fair use: doctrine that permits limited use of copy-righted material without permission from the right holders
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Well we shouldn’t even care
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It’s not the moral of the story
« Data is the oil of the XXIst century » (ew)
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Patents, copyright, sopa/pipa don’t suit data
Beautifully designed APIs protect data
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Web APIs are the new software patents
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PATENT
Open data, services and resources to third-parties.
Legal and commercial protection and monopoly
API
Publications and explanations of scientific inventions
Counterpart:
Legal and commercial protection and monopoly
Counterpart:
Open APIs, like patents before,breed ecosystem innovation
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(… but it’s not enough)
API exploration and discovery
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(How to scale the API economy ?)
Some are alreadybuilding the roads
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{API}Search
« Where we going, man?- I don’t know, but we gotta go. »
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