license can generate more revenue. Patent rights and trade secret rights are somewhat conflicting IP rights. Combined licenses … issued for using both patent rights and trade secret rights can evoke issues under Antitrust Laws. Composite license to use … patent and trade secret rights has economic effects on licensor and licensee both. This paper tries to analyse such effects …

Using the method of comparative analysis, this paper explores different legal issues related to software management … exploitation of software. Finally, considerations of a general nature will be developed and some operational solutions proposed …

software industry. We analyze data from 73 Finnish OSS companies' product type (i.e. proprietary vs. OSS product) and license … influence on software firms' business strategies. Family owned firms tend to rely on the traditional proprietary software in … OS licenses. Moreover, the market trends concerning a firm's software products affect the license type decisions of the …

Piracy has been a major problem for perpetually licensed software. Usage-based licensing architecture such as pay …-per-use or software-as-a-service can offer technology-based protection against piracy. We provide an analytical framework to …, and heterogeneous consumers in terms of marginal usage benefit and acquisition costs for pirated software. We show that …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

available, in the Open Source Software license weltanschauung. However there are arguments for the need to add to the suite of … patents or where there are specific jurisdiction or software practice issues which are required to be addressed, a growth in … the number of stakeholders in Open Source Software also demands attention for addition to the available licenses. This …