Atombeam Updates | Webinar June 2023

[@mktwatcher]

Wouldn't copyrighting your techniques give you 99 year IP protection instead of securing Patents. Also, why don't you keep your trade techniques a secret? After all, patents can be reversed engineered.

[@atombeam]

To be sure I was giving you a clear, comprehensive answer, I went to our patent firm and asked them to respond. Here is what they said: "Copyrights only protect against literal copying of source code that you have registered with the Copyright Office…good for things like Java headers and such but are irrelevant to what AtomBeam is doing and how its IP is protected. Patents cannot be reverse engineered without infringing. If you infringe, it doesn’t matter whether you came up with it independently or in a clean room-you still infringe. That’s why patents have only a 20-year lifespan." I should also add that we do in fact have a lot of trade secrets besides the patents - there is a lot of lessons learned and how-to in actually writing the code. We protect that information with NDAs and strong controls on access to the source code.

[@mktwatcher]

@@atombeam Thank you for providing this extra detail on your IP protection.