Robotics and Intellectual Property
$295
About the Course
Robots have applications in markets ranging from agriculture to defense; from automotive to healthcare; and from manufacturing to consumer goods.
It is estimated that the global industrial robotics market alone shall be worth $32.9 billion. Intellectual property — including utility patents, copyrights, design patents, trade secrets, software patents, and trademarks — will be a major value driver for the robotics industry going forward.
This unique webinar provides insights into issues such as:
- •Differences between fully autonomous, semi-autonomous, and remote-controlled robots
- •When software code should be protected by copyright versus software patents
- •Why robotics companies rely so heavily on trade secrets
- •Limitations of protecting intellectual property with trade secrets
- •Protecting IP when small robotics companies collaborate with large sponsors
- •The effect of First-to-File on robotics collaboration
- •The extent of prior art in the robotics industry
- •Risks associated with potential government exercise of March-In Rights
- •Avoiding entanglement with the Economic Espionage Act
- •How robotics patent claims are constructed
- •Risks of joint ownership of robotics patents
- •The value of provisional patent applications for robotics companies
- •Relieving indemnification liabilities as a robotics licensor
- •How the Digital Millennium Copyright Act lowers the bar for deemed copyright infringement
This session also examines major robotics litigation and transactions, including:
- •iRobot v. Koolatron & Urus Industries
- •iRobot v. Robotic FX