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SPaMCAST 652 - Intellectual Property Protection and Software, A Conversation With Rick Martin

Release Date: 05/23/2021

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Intellectual property protection impacts almost everyone whether they are aware of it or not. Trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets are all part of a wide-ranging discussion of IP protection in the software environment. Rick provides great insight into a rapidly evolving field.

Rick Martin is the owner and founder of Martin IP Law Group which is based in Evansville, Indiana but serves clients throughout the United States. He is a graduate of the Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering and the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.

Prior to beginning his career as an Intellectual Property Attorney, Rick worked as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Rick has obtained hundreds of patents for inventors in a variety of fields, including timing systems, mine safety devices, broadband antennas, RFID, electronics, ranging, oil & gas, semiconductors, and other mechanical and electro-mechanical devices.

For over 25 years, he has been helping entrepreneurs and businesses protect their ideas, inventions, and identities through patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related contracts, licenses, and agreements.

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://ipsolutionslaw.com/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rickmartinlaw

Re-Read Saturday News

Chapter 15 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, covers the retrospective. The retrospective, I think, is the most important part of Scrum. Helping it to work well is important.

Next week we will conclude our re-read with a few closing remarks. Make sure I have your input on what to re-read next by voting in the poll that can be found in the show notes. Don’t like polls? Email me your choice at [email protected].

If you have noT bought your copy of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems -- what are you waiting for?

This Week’s Installment

Week 15: The Retrospective - https://bit.ly/3bOK2Vg

Previous Installments

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/3mgz9P6

Week 2: A Brief Introduction To Scrum, and Why Scrum Goes Bad - https://bit.ly/37w4Dv9

Week 3: Breaking Bad Scrum with a Value-Driven Approach - http://bit.ly/3stGc9Q

Week 4: The Product Owner - https://bit.ly/3qpKvSn

Week 5: The Product Backlog - http://bit.ly/3cAEk9c

Week 6: The Development Team - http://bit.ly/2OLVAAs

Week 7: Embracing The Scrum Master Role - https://bit.ly/3m0HB5D

Week 8: Management - https://bit.ly/31Kv39l

Week 9: Thinking In Sprints - https://bit.ly/321wXTg

Week 10: Sprint Planning - https://bit.ly/3stWOhx

Week 11: Sprint Backlog - https://bit.ly/3njezit

Week 12 - Reclaiming The Daily Scrum - https://bit.ly/3eNzMgz

Week 13: Deconstructing the Done Product Increment - https://bit.ly/3bedTGc

Week 14: The Sprint Review - https://bit.ly/3huZvgP

Next SPaMCAST

The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature a longer essay titled, Work Entry: An Introduction. This essay brings together a number of concepts to focus on what work entry is and why it is the single most important part of determining whether a team is dependable and predictable.

We will also have a visit from Jon M Quigley and his Alpha and Omega of Product Development.

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