Rebecca Ward is a Senior Attorney with Microsoft Corporation where she has counseled software developers about IP issues for the last 7 years. During that time she spent a year and a half in Hyderabad, India as Microsoft’s Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing for India. Prior to that she taught at Drake University Law School, was in private practice for 14 years doing corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, and worked in-house as an IP lawyer with Principal Life Insurance Company.

Topic:
“Understanding Intellectual Property and the Development Cycle”
It’s almost release time. Do you know where your IP rights are?

The software development process has various phases: planning, coding, marketing, and releasing. At each step of this process there are different aspects of intellectual property law that come into play and need to be addressed. Learn how copyright, trademarks, trade secrets and patents can affect your project and what you need to do to protect your IP.