Speaking Engagements

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

Online Seminars

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

Training

Understanding Software Intellectual Property (4.5 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

• Intellectual Property
  • Copyrights and Copyright Infringement
  • Trade Secrets and Trade Secret Theft
  • Patents and Patent Infringement
  • Defining Source Code
• Source Code Similarity
  • Using CodeDiff® to Measure Source Code Similarity
• Changing Lines of Code (CLOC)
  • Using CodeCLOC® to Measure CLOC
• Source Code Correlation
  • Using CodeMatch® to Detect Copyright Infringement
• Source Code Cross-Correlation
  • Using CodeCross® to Detect Copyright Infringement
• Object Code Correlation
  • Using BitMatch® to Detect Copyright Infringement
• Tools for Detecting Trade Secret Theft And Patent Infringement
• Writing an Expert Report
• Stories from the Trenches
  

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

Training can be held at your location or ours. To schedule training, please contact us at Info@ZeidmanConsulting.com.

Bob Zeidman, Instructor

Bob is the president of Zeidman Consulting that provides engineering consulting for intellectual property litigation. Bob Zeidman is also the president of Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corporation that develops and sells CodeSuite®, the leading software tool for comparing source code and object code to find theft and infringement. Bob has served as an expert witness in patent, trade secret, and copyright litigation resulting in several billion dollars in total awards. Among his publications are technical papers on hardware and software design methods as well as four textbooks: The Software IP Detective's Handbook, Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs, Verilog Designer's Library, and Introduction to Verilog. He has taught courses at business and engineering conferences throughout the world. Bob holds numerous 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.