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Author:Hammarén, Patrik
Title:Intellectual Property Strategy - balancing co-operation and exclusivity through use of open source software
Publication type:Master's thesis
Publication year:2010
Pages:vii + 102      Language:   eng
Department/School:Informaatio- ja luonnontieteiden tiedekunta
Degree programme:Informaatioverkostojen tutkinto-ohjelma
Main subject:Yritysstrategia ja kansainvälinen liiketoiminta   (TU-91)
Supervisor:Maula, Markku
Instructor:Amper, Mikko
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Location:P1 Ark Aalto     | Archive
Keywords:IPR and legal strategies
Linux kernel
open source
open innovation
smartphone operating systems
immateriella rättigheter
juridiska strategier
Linux
operativsystem
öppen innovation
öppen källkod
Abstract (eng): Mass collaboration and open innovation are the buzzwords of the current decade.
Company internal development is no longer sufficient to assure that the market offering remains on an attractive level for the consumer.
The struggle of the internal department for intellectual property protection is to strive to ensure exclusivity for the company, which could be utilized for revenue, while not hindering this modern form of openness between corporations and the surrounding society.

This thesis describes the legal models through which exclusivity and collaboration have been balanced in the modern mobile operating system market.
Through an empirical analysis, and a literature overview of the research in the area, legal strategy alternatives are discovered through which the grant of right's by a contributor may be controlled.
In order to thoroughly understand the consequences of providing material for collaboration, or when using this material in ones distributable, the license implications in the open source area must be well understood by the exploiter.
Information of the legal ambiguity, and the risk related thereto, with regards to some key questions in open source area is also provided in this thesis.

The outcome of this thesis is that freedom for optimization of the mobile operating system asset strategy is possible only when the platform is separated into subsections.
Definition of the architecture and the interaction of these subsections, complemented by analysis of the available technologies in the market and identification of the core strengths possessed by the company, is the most essential task of the company internal research and development organization.

Once the initial analyses for the architecture are done, the role of each piece within the operating system is to be defined.
When an individual target strategy for the area has been set, the legal intentions are to be identified for each individual section independently.
The alternative choices are: differentiate; provide academically; provide as free software; standardize; neutralize or share cost.
The legal strategy choices of the company will set its competitive position and assure it optimizes the revenue generated by its technology.
Through optimization of the overall asset rigorous protection of IPR, possessed by the company in a domain intended for differentiation, may in another area be balanced by liberal open source terms.
Abstract (swe): Samarbete med massorna och öppen innovation är några av de mest upprepade slagorden för det pågående årtiondet.
Företagets interna kapacitet räcker sällan längre till för att säkerställa att företagets utbud behålls på en attraktiv nivå för konsumenten.
Den interna avdelningen för immaterialrättsligt skydd måste ständigt balansera på en tunn lina mellan exklusivitet och samarbete.
Ensamrätter, som kunde användas för intäkter, får inte hindra den moderna formen av öppenhet mellan företag och det omgivande samhället.

Den här avhandlingen beskriver juridiska modeller genom vilka exklusivitet och samarbete har balanserats i dagens operativsystems marknad.
Genom en empirisk analys, och en litteratur översikt av forskningen inom området, har olika strategiska alternativ upptäckts genom vilka skydd och öppenhet kan idkas kontrollerat.

Enligt resultatet i avhandlingen kan den optimala balansen mellan öppenhet och slutenhet i operativsystemet finnas endast då hela operativsystemet fördelas i mindre enheter.
Rollen för var del av operativsystemet bör sedan individuellt uppskattas av den interna organisationen för forskning och undersökning, varefter en juridisk strategi för området kan fastställas.

Emedan det strategiska valet för operativsystemets enskilda delar kräver förståelse för de lagstadgade grunderna som begränsar alternativen, behandlas i detta arbete även tvetydighet inom det juridiska området genomgående.

De identifierade alternativen för strategi är i detta arbete: skydda rigoröst, ge akademiskt, ge som fri programvara, standardisera, neutralisera eller dela kostnader.
Genom balansering av dessa alternativ kan det optimala operativsystemet, från företagets synpunkt, byggas upp.
ED:2010-06-01
INSSI record number: 39694
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