From:           	"Stephen GOULD" 
Organization:   	Halisa International Network
To:             	sdgillmore@oic.org
Date sent:      	Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:30:23 +0000
Subject:        	Steve - points for IP Seminar
Send reply to:  	sggould@halisa.net
Priority:       	normal

Steve - there are a number of issues on Intellectual Property [IP] for 
software that you may want to include:

A	Funding for software development
B	Registering International Patents
C	How to Value IP
D	Next Steps

A	FUNDING FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

a	Often if you want to receive funding to develop a concept you have 
	to explain in detail how the software/process operates.  That in its self
	can open the door for somebody to copy the concept

b	An example is in 1987/1988 Australia had established a new
	venture capital [VC] market for software developers.

c	Many software developers revealed their IP to these VCs.

d	I remember one situation where the software developer thought
	he had secured the funding and IP rights world-wide for his product.

e	It transpires the IP owner eventually found out that he only had the 
	IP rights to Australia and the VC had the rights to the Rest of the 
	World

B	REGISTERING FOR INTERNATIONAL PATENTS 

a	In 1986 I was advised by John MARTIN our Commonwealth Bank 
	Manager to meet with a patent Lawyer Philip ARGY to take out a 
	patent on the RUBAC Electronic Information Interchange [EII]
	methodology
	
b	I met with Philip ARGY and spent time with him documenting
	how the RUBAC coding methodology operated.

c	Philip ARGY is currently the head of the Australian delegation to the
	World Intellectual Property Organisation [WIPO]

d	Later that year I discovered that Australian Patent Law did not cover
	Intellectual Property and had to go to London to register the Patent
	with IP Lawyers in Lincoln Inn Fields.

e	It transpires that you have to register the patent for each Country
	There was a fee BPS 1,250 for each country

f	This costs makes it very difficult for a SME software developer 
	to register the patent for all potential export markets

C	HOW TO VALUE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

a	On the issue of how to value IP it should take into consideration
	the loss of income for that concept/software developer for the time
	spent researching and refining the concept as well as the costs
	of actually developing the application.

b	This is where electronic diaries can play an important role
	in determining the cost and value of the IP 

c	The format for this IP cost assessment could similar as ITOL 
	Grant Applications

D	NEXT STEPS

If required Halisa International Network would be pleased to provide:

1	a prototype Intellectual Property Record Registration that may 
	be suitable for Software Developers to record an overview of 
	their IP concept and who they have informed about the IP.

2	speak at the seminar

3	provide a paper on IP for consideration

Regards

Stephen GOULD
Partner eProjects
HALISA INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

E:	sggould@halisa.net
W:	http://www.halisa.net.au/G/C

























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