HCI and Intellectual Property

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Speaker
Brad Myers
Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Intellectual Property is having a big impact on HCI Research and Practice, and on HCI faculty and practitioners. This talk will explain the different forms of Intellectual Property, which includes trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and patents. I will discuss various issues around getting patents on human-computer interaction inventions, and how that impacts universities (that is, faculty and students), and also start-ups and big companies. I will review Carnegie Mellon University’s Intellectual Property Policy, and the implications of that on faculty and students here. I will also briefly discuss the issues around serving as an “expert witness” consultant in Intellectual Property legal cases. There will be plenty of time for questions, but this talk will not be videotaped, and the slides will not be publicly available afterwards, so please attend if you are interested.

Speaker's Bio

Brad A. Myers is a Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an ACM Fellow, a member of the CHI Academy, and author or editor of over 400 publications, about six of which have won best paper awards. He is also the author of the sidebar on Intellectual Property in the new textbook by H. Rex Hartson and Pardha S. Pyla, called “The UX Book”. As an expert witness, Brad Myers has worked for about 34 law firms on over 57 intellectual property cases, all related to patents. For these cases, he has written about 31 expert reports, been deposed 17 times, and testified at 2 jury trials, 2 ITC hearings and 1 Markman hearing.

Speaker's Website
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/