BNA Books' New 2009 Cumulative Supplement to 'Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice' Covers Licensing Law in Every IP Context

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announces the publication of the 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice.

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Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice is the only licensing law book available that exhaustively examines the many contexts in which intellectual property licensing occurs and provides a foundational, yet comprehensive, framework for understanding the significant transactional issues that arise during the commercialization process. Practitioners will get in-depth coverage of such specialized topics as:

• Upstream licensing and Open Source -- the only legal treatise that comprehensively addresses Open Source in the licensing of software
• Multimedia and platform licensing
• Bankruptcy issues in licensing
• Tax concerns in licensing
• Misuse and antitrust concerns in licensing
• Federal government procurements and licensing
• Privacy and information licensing -- covers court and administrative decisions interpreting the balance between the right to privacy in individual data and the rights of owners of collected and aggregated data

Unlike with other licensing treatises that focus on either license drafting or on the theory of license agreements, the authors of this treatise draw from their professional expertise to develop a balanced treatment that is both theoretical and practical in its approach. It includes an extensive collection of licensing agreements, in print and on an accompanying CD-ROM.

The 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Intellectual Property Software and Information Licensing: Law and Practice provides the following updates:

• The Federal Circuit's recent enforcement of an "open source" license in Jacobsen v. Katzer -- the first time a U.S. appellate court case has directly ruled on the enforceability of an open source license
• Asset Marketing Sys. v. Gagnon, Ninth Circuit case, which provides guidance on how to ascertain the scope of a license when an independent contractor develops software but the parties have not entered into a written license agreement
• Beltronics USA v. Midwest Inventory Distribution  -- a new case describing when a product is materially different enough so that resale of the product without permission of the trademark holder is not protected under the trademark exhaustion doctrine
• The IRS published Revenue Procedure for taxation of patent cross-licensing arrangement, Rev. Proc. 2007-23
• New Contingent Trademark Licenses, which focuses on the meaning of a contingent trademark license or an agreement to agree
• The Ninth Circuit decision on standing to sue in a copyright licensing case, Sybersound Records v. UAV Corp., where the Court examined whether an assignment of the karaoke-use interest was merely a non-exclusive license or a statutory exclusive right
• Whether a security interest in a patent confers the secured party standing to bring an infringement action, covered in Krowalski v. Ocean Duke Corp.

As licensing law is created and revised to keep pace with developer and user needs, Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice with 2009 Cumulative Supplement provides the information and the tools to help practitioners develop comprehensive licensing agreements, rectify existing problems, maximize returns within the legal boundaries, anticipate new concerns, and avoid potential pitfalls.

The treatise is co-authored by Xuan-Thao N. Nguyen, law professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, TX;  Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, professor of law at the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA; and Danielle Conway-Jones, professor and director of the Hawaii Procurement Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

BNA is a leading private publisher of news and information products for professionals in law and business. In addition to Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice with 2009 Cumulative Supplement, BNA's Book Division publishes Anatomy of a Patent Case; Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws; Computer and Intellectual Property Crime: Federal and State Law; Electronic and Software Patents: Law and Practice; Intellectual Property Technology Transfer; Intellectual Property Taxation: Transaction and Litigation Issues; Intellectual Property Law in Cyberspace; Legal Protection of Digital Information; McCarthy's Desk Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property; Patent Infringement Remedies; Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook; Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure; Patents and the Federal Circuit; Trademark Dilution: Federal, State, and International Law; Trademark Infringement Remedies; and other titles in legal specialties. For a free BNA Books catalog, call 1-800-960-1220 or send an e-mail request to [email protected]. The BNA Books website, including an online catalog, can be found at bnabooks.com.

The 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice (400 pp. Softcover/Order #1809-PRY9/$200.00 plus tax, shipping, and handling) may be purchased alone, or with the main volume (1,584 pp. Hardcover with 2009 Cumulative Supplement/ Order #9809-PRY9/$395.00 plus tax, shipping, and handling) from BNA Books, PO Box 7814, Edison, NJ 08818-7814. Telephone orders: 1-800-960-1220. Fax orders: 1-732-346-1624. A 10% discount is available on print copies of books when ordering from the website at bnabooks.com. Please note that discounts cannot be combined.

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