Workshop at the Belgian institute of In-House Counsel. On how technological changes revolutionize the use of Intellectual Property Rights. How In-House Counsel can play a key role to create more value for the business by understanding and using those changes.
18. The story of
the wheat on
the chessboard
18,446,744,073,709,551,615
=
264
-‐
1
19. • Earth mass
= 5.97219 x 1024 kg
• Wheat mass (1 grain = 1g)
= 1.8446 x 1016 kg
• Wheat mass
= 1/100,000,000 Earth
• 2013 grain production
= 2,140 Million Tonnes
(= 2.140 x 1012 kg)
• Wheat mass
= 10,000 x 2013 production
20. Big Data
• The amount of data
doubles every 18-24
months
• 90 % of all data in
the world was
created in the last 2
years
• most data is
generated by users,
sensors or
machines
34. “99% of the Global 2000 will include Open Source Software (OSS) in their
mission-critical software portfolios by 2016.” (Gartner 2011)
35. Why?
Security – Linus’s Law (named after Linus Torvalds, Linux creator and
OSS pioneer) states, “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. OSS
offers enhanced security by leveraging the strength of its developer base
to quickly identify and fix bugs.!
!
Quality – OSS offers immensely better quality of code. Imagine
thousands of developers constantly striving to innovate and contribute to
an OSS versus a handful of developers shipping out a licensed software
package.!
!
Trial & Support – OSS also offers great trial and support options. As the
code is free, organizations can try it out at will, and with hundreds of
communities and online forums of open source developers, support is
never far away for the users.!
!
Flexibility – Other benefits come in the form of amazing customizability,
freedom and flexibility the code offers. Organizations typically tweak the
code with minimal effort to best match their requirements, a relatively
well-known example being that of Goobuntu, a ‘long term support’ version
of Ubuntu developed and used in-house by Google.
37. “Open innovation is a paradigm that
assumes that firms can and should use
external ideas as well as internal ideas,
and internal and external paths to
market, as the firms look to advance
their technology”
!
Henry Chesbrough
Open Innovation
49. General Conclusions
1. The IP Paradigm is changing
2. The use of IP/Intellectual Capital is changing
3. Technology cycles are shortening
4. Technology itself is threatening IP old style