Adam all right. I believe that we will now begin. So thank you all for coming to our event today on the google v. Oracle case. Officially titled consequences of the case. I actually have my own subtitle, which is copyright and the future of the industry. Very it is a very significant case. Absolutely delighted to have the director of patents to speak to us about the legal policy and commercial issues raised by this case. My name is adam mossoff. Im a senior fellow at the hudson institute. And im the chair of the newly constituted forum for intellectual property at the hudson institute. This is our inaugural event and were delighted to have it on such an important issue and such a great speaker. We will be hosting events and promoting datadriven fact base research that explores and investigates the important and key roles that intellectual property plays and not just driving the u. S. Economy for the past 230 years but all innovation economies throughout the world creating the foundatio
Work of our National Innovation initiative. Now, another 17 years later, here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Today well hear stories about these changes as theyre foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by the Council Board on this stage is a multiyear effort to reimagine americas innovation potential and to chart a new path for competitiveness in the 21st century. And as this slide shows, just a little less than a year ago, with our core leadership team, we began to build this effort. And by august we had pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners, nearly 60 leaders from across this country from industry, from academia, from our Labor Union Community and our National Labs. And the commission has already started their work. As deborah mentioned, todays launch is our 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future traject
Welcome back. You both had some great vacations over christmas. We did. Youre dealing with the time change okay . Im okay. How was your time change . Eight hours. I dont have an excuse. Im just tired. Yeah. It is what it is. It is holiday for many folks still. As we look at live doppler 7. You can see the rotation of yesterdays rain sinking to the south, taking the rain with it. Were seeing clearing skies from north to south. So well call it mostly cloudy to start out. Then partly cloudy throughout the Morning Hours. Its 49 in San Francisco. Look at the view of the city. 50 in half moon bay. From our exploratorium camera, it looks good. Visibility here, 42 in napa, fog forming in the inland east bay around livermore. Good morning, jobina. Good morning, lisa and to everyone watching. Looking live at the bay bridge toll plaza. Metering lights are not on. Cash lanes are stacking up. San rafael, 1101, nice, clear ride. Our drive times here, walnut creek to dublin, 13 minutes. Santa rosa to
Brouilette will deliver remarks. Good morning, we have seen time and again how technology has transformed our lives and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was a period of change, 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a particular inflection point. We needed significant change to enhance our innovation capacity and that led to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative. Another 17 years later, here we are again, finding ourselves at transformational change. Throughout the day as was mentioned, were going to hear stories about these changes as theyre foundational to our commission on innovation and competitiveness front tiers. The commission is a multiyear effort to reimagine americas innovation channel and to charter a new path in the 21st century. As this slideshows just a little less than a year ago with our core leadership team, we began to build this effor
Businesses tech giants tend to keep their proprietary code secret Companies Like microsoft sell expensive user licenses of its patented code the companys founder bill gates even referred to open source projects as a new form of communism now microsoft has shelled out 6500000000 euros for good hap a Key Open Source Software Development Platform and i. B. M. Recently bought open Source Software developer redhat for a staggering 30000000000 euros making it i. B. M. s biggest takeover ever which impact will this have on the open Source Community or tech idealists giving in to market pressures we asked mikell boom from the Technical University of berlin whos been involved in the open Source Community for 20 years because he could so as you will the commercialization of open Source Software that weve been seeing also with the acquisition. Get up hasnt really impacted the daily business because you still have free access to the software. Not everyone in the open Source Community is as optimis