1. Slide 1 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor Software Licensing Experiences Russell M. Taylor II Research Professor Computer Science Physics & Astronomy Curriculum on Applied Sciences & Engineering

2. Slide 2 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor Don’t Do This! “Virtual-reality User Interface For Controlling Specimen Modification With Scanning Probe Microscopes” Published 1992 Disclosed January 7, 1994 Game Over!

3. Slide 3 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor But if you Do… Nick England/3rdTech still licensed –Took a long time – ask him for the model –Improvements go both directions www.nanomanipulator.com

4. Slide 4 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor OTD Has Limited Resources “Manual or Algorithmic Control of a Scanned Probe Microscope Tip in Three Dimensions” Relied on inventors to locate funding for patent Still in limbo

5. Slide 5 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor OTD Didn’t Waste My Time “Thank-you ware” No market for technique to register use of free software Case closed (mothballed) immediately

6. Slide 6 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor OTD: Once was Blazing Fast “A Method for Rendering Non-Polygonal Surfaces on Programmable Graphics Hardware” Disclosure received Feb 2, 2004 Provisional Patent filed Feb 20, 2004 Don’t count on this …

7. Slide 7 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor OTD: Can go the Distance “Better than surgical camera (BTSC): a method for display of normally-occluded surfaces of interest in medical images” Interest from Radiology, CS, Siemens Provisional patent applied for International patent applied for Licensed to Siemens –Took almost 6 months of badgering for payment

8. Slide 8 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor Other Models nM: Commercialization is what worked VRPN: Public-domain was needed CISMM: NIH-funded free/open source –ImageSurfer –Video Spot Tracker –Fluorescence Simulator –Video Optimizer –…

9. Slide 9 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor Licenses Binary-only: Standard software model GNU General Public Licenses (GPL) –Lesser/Library –General Public License: Using other libraries with this licenses in your code has serious consequences Berkeley (BSD) Public Domain

10. Slide 10 2/4/2009 UNC-CH OTD Software Seminar Russ Taylor Summary Disclose (well) before publishing if you want to pursue commercially Disclose derivative works as well as new works before pursuing commercially Let OTD know the time constraints Discuss all known or suspected industrial interest Talk to Nick England about setting up licenses for non-patented IP with feedback from development.