Publications, Presentations and Invited Seminars

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David Rickerby

Publications and Presentations

  • "Open Source Issues and Opportunities," presenter, Practicing Law Institute, May 2018. 
  • "1st Look" at the Impact of Oracle v. Google on Software Development,” presenter, MCLE New England, April 2018
  • "Open Source Issues and Opportunities," presenter, Practicing Law Institute, April 2017. 
  • "Open Source Issues and Opportunities," presenter, Practicing Law Institute, April 2016. 
  • "Use of Cloud Services; Issues Arising from Use of Online Data from or Concerning Users," presenter, MCLE New England, January 2016.
  • "Open Source Issues and Opportunities," presenter, Practicing Law Institute, April 2015.
  • "Open Source Issues and Opportunities," presenter, Practicing Law Institute, April 2014. 
  • "Licensing Compliance; Getting what you Negotiated - Pitfalls and Best Practices," panelist, Massachusetts Association of Technology Transfer Offices, December 2013.
  • "Building a Business in Massachusetts," panelist, EU-US e-Health Marketplace and Conference, October 2013.
  • “What Technology Companies Need to Know About Navigating the US Legal System,” presenter, Launch In US Alliance, December 2011.
  • "International Commercial Contracting," co-chair, MCLE Seminar, Boston, October 2011.
  • "Licensing Intellectual Property," guest lecturer, Suffolk Law School Intellectual Property Law Certificate Program, October 2011.
  • "Open Source Issues," speaker, Practising Law Institute's Advanced Licensing Agreements Program, April 2011 and 2010.
  • "Open Source Licenses," panelist, Practising Law Institute's Understanding the Intellectual Property License, New York, October 2010.
  • "Approaching the Cloud: What You Should Know, coauthor, Bloomberg Law Reports, June 2010.
  • "Spotlight on Corporate Governance," panelist, Harvard Law School, March 2010.
  • “Protecting Data,” panelist, MCLE Introduction to Licensing, Boston, November 2009.
  • “IP Horror Stories,” speaker, Cornell Entrepreneurship Educational Series, Ithaca, September 2009.
  • MTTC Pitch Panel, June 2009 "Cornell Ventures Challenge," judge, Entrepreneurship@Cornell, The Johnson School at Cornell University, Ithaca, April 2009.
  • "Before You Leap - Ways to Structure and Enforce a Contract to Avoid Litigation," panelist, Association of Corporate Counsel Conference - Northeast Chapter, Waltham, March 2009.
  • “IP Year in Review,” speaker, Boston Bar Association, January 2009.
  • “Open Source: Inside and Out,” speaker, Distributing, Licensing and Pricing Software and Other High Technologies, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, December 2008. 
  • “Naked Without My Data: Transforming Data into Customers, Capital and Opportunity in the Innovation Economy,” panelist, Naked Without My Data Seminar, Waltham, June 2009.
  • New England Corporate Counsel Association, Waltham, May 2008.
  • “Open Source, Issues and Opportunities,” speaker, Practicing Law Institute, Chicago, April 2008.
  • “Software Patents Brown Bag,” speaker, Boston Bar Association, Boston, January 2008
  • “Licensing 101,” speaker, Boston Bar Association, Boston, December 2007
  • “Gap Funding Workshop,” Massachusetts Association of Tech Transfer Officers, Boston, September 2007.
  • “GPL 3.0 Q&A,” speaker, Choate Client Learning Presentation, August 2007.
  • “Hot Issues in Tech Transfer,” speaker, MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta, July 2007.
  • “IP Basics,” speaker, Swiss Entrepreneurship Mission, Boston, June 2007, 2008 and 2009
  • “Introducing GPL 3,” Mass High Tech, Waltham, June 2007.
  • “IP Basics,” speaker, MIT $100K Finalists Class, Boston, April 2007.
  • “Introduction to Patents,” speaker, I2V (Invention to Venture), Cornell University, Ithaca, February 2007
  • IT Panel, speaker, MIT Technology & Entrepreneurship Forum, Cambridge MA, April 2006.
  • “Open Source and Beyond,” speaker, LinuxWorld, Boston, April 2006.
  • Cornell Business Idea Competition, judge, Johnson School at Cornell University, Ithaca, March 2006, April 2007 and April 2008.
  • “IP Basics,” speaker, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Boston, January 2006.

Anne Hulecki

Invited Seminars

  • "Demystifying SaaS Agreements," Chair/Faculty, MCLE, 2020. 
  • "Contract Management," Faculty, MCLE, 2019. 
  • "Case Study Approach to Cutting-Edge Cloud Computing Contracts," Chair/Faculty, MCLE, 2017. 
  • "FTC and DOJ Updated Guidelines for IP Licensing," Faculty, MCLE IP Year in Review, 2017.
  • "Software Licensing and Cloud Computing," Suffolk University Law School, IP Licensing Panel, 2017.
  • "IP for Entrepreneurs," Sawyer Business School, 2016.
  • "Electronic Contracting and E-Commerce Issues," New England Law Boston, 2014 and 2015.
  • "Get Your Head into the Cloud," Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts, January 2015.
  • "Negotiating & Renegotiating Contracts:  Software and technology, key employee and non-compete, and long-term sales agreements," Chair/Faculty, MCLE, 2014.
  • "Contracts for the Cloud and on the Web," Chair/Faculty, MCLE, April 2013.
  • "Negotiating & Renegotiating Contracts:  SaaS, Employment, Distribution, and Non-Disclosure," Chair/Faculty, MCLE, 2011 and 2012.
  • "Copyright, Privacy & Defamation in Cyberspace," Co-Chair, MCLE, 2011.
  • "Negotiating & Renegotiating Contracts," Chair/Faculty, MCLE, 2009 and 2010.
  • "Copyright in the Digital Age," Co-Chair/Faculty, MCLE, 2008.
  • "Drafting and Negotiating Effective Contracts," Chair/Faculty,  MCLE, 2008.
  • "E-Commerce – Electronic Signatures and Contracts in Cyberspace," and "Special Considerations when Dealing with Transactions in Goods – Uniform Commercial Code Article 2," MCLE, 2007.

Books and Chapters

Books:

  • Drafting & Negotiating Massachusetts Contracts (MCLE, ed., 2nd ed. 2010, 1st Supp. 2013, 2nd Supp. 2016)
  • Obtaining, Using and Protecting Trademarks (MCLE, ed.,1997).

Chapters:

  • "Understanding Cloud Contracting Practices," with Michael Rustad in Software Licensing, Cloud Computing Agreements, Open Source, and Internet Terms Of Use:  A Practical Approach to Information Age Contracts in a Global Setting (New York.  New York:  Matthew Bender Co.,  2016).
  • "Special Considerations when Dealing with Transactions in Goods, Uniform Commercial Code Article 2," in Drafting & Negotiating Massachusetts Contracts (MCLE, ed., 2010).
  • "Trademark Licensing with Technology and Software," in Thomas Franklin, Technology Licensing Primer:  Cutting Edge Lawyering in Massachusetts (2001).

Steve Winslow

Presentations and Conferences

  • Chair, MCLE SaaS Agreements Demystified, September 2024.
  • "Open Source Licensing: Overview and Current Topics," presenter, Practicing Law Institute Advanced Licensing Agreements, April 2024.
  • "SPDX 3.0 Licensing Profile," presenter, SPDX 3.0 Tooling Mini Summit, May 2023.
  • "The SPDX License List: What, Why and How" and "Ask the Expert Session on Open Source and Supply Chain Compliance," presenter, Open Source Summit North America, June 2022.
  • "Next Steps for Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Generation in Zephyr," presenter, Zephyr Developer Summit, June 2022.
  • "Walking the Open Source Trail Towards Supply Chain Integrity and Security," keynote speaker, Open Mainframe Summit, September 2021.
  • "Generating SBOMs for IoT at Build Time," presenter, Supply Chain Town Hall, August 2021.
  • "Automating creation of Software Bills of Materials: Generating SPDX documents for CMake and Zephyr," presenter, FOSDEM, February 2021.
  • "Open Source Licensing," presenter, Linux Foundation Live Mentorship Series, January 2021.
  • "SPDX 3.0: Extending Beyond License Compliance," co-presenter, Open Compliance Summit, December 2020.
  • Co-chair and presenter, Linux Foundation Legal Summit, October 2020.
  • "How The Linux Foundation Builds Sustainable Open Source Communities," presenter, Open FinTech Forum, December 2019.
  • Co-chair and presenter, Linux Foundation Legal Summit, August 2019.
  • "SPDX: Bridging the Compliance Tooling Gap" and "Managing CLAs for Open Source Communities at Scale," co-presenter, Open Source Leadership Summit, March 2019.
  • "Dealing with Open Source Licenses," presenter, New England Regional Developers (NERD) Summit, March 2019.
  • "Open Source Compliance in Today's Tech Companies," co-panelist, MCLE Advanced Software Licensing, February 2019.
  • "GDPR and Open Source Development," presenter, Open Compliance Summit, December 2018.
  • "Complying with Open Source Licenses," co-presenter, Open FinTech Forum, October 2018.
  • Co-chair and presenter, Linux Foundation Legal Summit, September 2018.
  • "GDPR in Open Source and Emerging Technologies," presenter, Linux Foundation Webinar Series, July 2018.
  • "What To Do About Open Source," co-presenter, New England Corporate Counsel Association, June 2018.
  • Co-presenter, Free Software Foundation Europe Legal and Licensing Workshop, April 2018.
  • "License Information Management - Case Study," co-presenter, Open Source Leadership Summit, March 2018.
  • "Case Study: License Scanning at The Linux Foundation," co-presenter, Open Compliance Summit, December 2017.
  • Co-chair and presenter, Linux Foundation Legal Summit, December 2017.
  • Co-panelist, MCLE Case Study Approach to Cutting-Edge Cloud Computing Contracts, April 2017.

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