IP and the Internet

IP in the software industry

IP related to Internet, e-commerce and digital enterprise found on the Internet.

Wipo website for SME provides a useful reference source for the relationship between IP, Internet and electronic commerce. We can find useful information on how a firm should audit its IP assets relevant to e-commerce, how to protect its IP when designing a website, issues related to Internet domain names and distribution of content on the Internet, the patent issues in e-commerce, IP concerns related to e-commerce international transactions.

Simensky et al. (1999). It contains 62 chapters (too many to review here). The first part presents the role of IP in on-line commerce. The second treats accounting, finance and valuation. The third part deals with protection of IP, followed by the commercial exploitation of IP. The last 33 chapters cover the international aspects of the securitization of IP in so many countries (Boer, 1999).

Web “crash course” provided by the University of Texas (2003).

The “digital professor” website created by Professor Michael Rappa provides course material on managing the digital enterprise that includes several sections and references on IP-related issues (Digital professor, 2003).

The report by the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure of the National Research Council, The Digital Dilemma, Intellectual Property in the Information Age (2000) recognized that given the multitude of possible IP business models, legal mechanisms and technical protection services, a one-size-fits-all solution to the dilemma would be too rigid. The Committee recommended that: “Legislators should not contemplate an overhaul of IP laws and public policy at this time, to permit the evolutionary process (described above) to play out.”