Speaking Engagements

Here are the seminars, courses, tutorials, and other speaking engagements by Zeidman Consulting employees that are coming up.

Topic	Speaker	Dates	Place
Detecting Software Intellectual Property Theft	Bob Zeidman, President	October 21, 2010	Embedded Live - London, England
Real-Time Operating Systems for Systems on a Chip	Bob Zeidman, President	October 21, 2010	Embedded Live - London, England

Online Seminars

Here are the seminars, courses, tutorials, and other speaking engagements by Zeidman Consulting employees that are available online.

Topic and Links	Speaker
Digital Logic Design - Past, Present, and Future	Bob Zeidman, President
Digital Logic Design - Past, Present, and Future - Intro Digital Logic Design - Past, Present, and Future - Part 1 Digital Logic Design - Past, Present, and Future - Part 2 Digital Logic Design - Past, Present, and Future - Part 3 Digital Logic Design - Past, Present, and Future - Part 4
Starting Your Engineering Consulting Business	Bob Zeidman, President
The Untold History of Bob (A Little Humor)	Bob Zeidman, President

Training

Understanding Software Intellectual Property (4.25 California MCLE Credit Hours)

Zeidman Consulting is approved MCLE Provider #14630.

Course Abstract: Software copyright infringement and trade secret theft are problems of growing concern in industry. These kinds of intellectual property theft may be purposeful when performed to gain an unfair advantage over a competitor, or they may be unintended as in the case of a programmer that takes code from one project and uses it in another project without first obtaining the appropriate rights. In all cases, a formal methodology is required and a standard, quantitative measure is needed to be able to effectively compare source code from different sources to determine whether trade secret theft or copyright infringement has occurred. Just as important, legal and technical definitions are needed. This seminar will define important terms from a technical perspective and a legal perspective so that litigation involving software intellectual property is less a battle of experts and more a quantitative comparison of repeatable results. The seminar will examine various measures of software correlation and various tools for detecting IP infringement.

Course Outline

Introduction
Defining Source Code
Calculating Software Correlation
What Is A Software Copyright And What Constitutes Software Source Code Copyright Infringement?
What Is A Software Trade Secret And What Constitutes Software Source Code Trade Secret Theft?
Lunch
What Is A Software Patent And What Constitutes Software Patent Infringement?
Measuring And Interpreting Software Source Code Correlation
Tools For Detecting Software IP Theft
Stories From The Trenches
Conclusion

Who Should Attend: This course is intended for intellectual property lawyers and expert witnesses as well as corporate executives, project managers, and programmers who are concerned about detecting theft and plagiarism of their own code or avoiding theft and plagiarism by programmers working for them.

Result: By the end of the course, students will understand ways of defining, detecting, and measuring software intellectual property and its theft and infringement.

Prerequisites: None.

Cost

This training is $500 per person and includes lunch.

Dates and Locations

Lawyers are trained at your location. To schedule training, please contact us at Info@ZeidmanConsulting.com.

Bob Zeidman, Instructor

Bob Zeidman is the president of Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corporation and the president of Zeidman Consulting. Bob has created CodeSuite®, the leading suite of software tools for comparing and analyzing software and is considered a pioneer in the fields of software synthesis and analysis. Bob has served as an expert witness in patent, trade secret, and copyright litigation for plaintiffs and defendants where the stakes were hundreds of millions of dollars or more. Among his publications are technical papers on software and hardware design as well as three textbooks -- Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs, Verilog Designer's Library, and Introduction to Verilog. He has taught engineering and business courses at conferences throughout the world. Bob holds four patents and earned bachelor's degrees in physics and electrical engineering at Cornell University and a master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University.