About this ebook
Part autobiography, part legal history, and part philosophy of law, this volume explores a variety of subjects including the nature of legal reasoning, property, privacy, and personal identity. In addition, it tackles larger issues grounded on meticulous research into the legal protection for computer software, the mechanics of software licensing, the use of intellectual property rights in secured lending and trademark selection, registration and maintenance. Hemnes weaves through the complexity of these issues and examines how the promises of the early digital age in the 20th century declined into the rampant factionalism, nationalism, and terrorism of the early 21st century.
An indispensable resource for anyone studying the emergence of intellectual property rights as a cornerstone of the modern economy, this book also serves as a foundational reference tool for professors, students, and practitioners of intellectual property. Furthermore, the valuable information contained within its pages; from the very basics of computer software protection to the intricacies of negotiation strategy for indemnification clauses in intellectual property licenses, warrants its place on the library shelves of every practitioner of intellectual property and privacy law and on the reading list of every intellectual property, privacy and jurisprudence course.
About the author
Thomas Hemnes is a prominent Boston intellectual property attorney and an internationally recognised expert on intellectual property. He has been recognised as a Distinguished Specialist Practitioner by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of the United Kingdom and is featured in the IAM-Licensing 250 – The World’s Leading Patent and Technology Licensing Lawyers. He is also rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell 2015. Prior to joining GTC, Thomas was partner at Foley Hoag where he founded and chaired the firm’s highly-regarded intellectual department.
A frequent lecturer and author on intellectual property law, Thomas taught intellectual property for many years as an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University School of Law and Boston College Law School. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, England and Wales.
