[Noisebridge-discuss] TALK AND BOOK-SIGNING BY BOB ZEIDMAN AT NOISEBRIDGE TOMORROW NIGHT

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TL;DR: 7 PM Thursday Aug 4 (tomorrow) Bob Zeidman will be speaking at
Noisebridge about intellectual property rights and patents. Come one, come
all.


THE MADE, NOISEBRIDGE TO HOST TALK AND BOOK-SIGNING BY BOB

ZEIDMAN

“The History of Digital Game Intellectual Property from Atari to Zynga”

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment is pleased to announce a talk
and

book-signing by Bob Zeidman, inventor of the Silicon Valley Napkin,
co-hosted by

Noisebridge. The event will take place August 4th at 7:00PM at Noisebridge’s
hacking

community space located at 2169 Mission St., San Francisco CA.

The talk will cover video game copyrights, intellectual property, trade
secrets, and

patents, as well as how to protect your own intellectual property. Zeidman
will

also discuss early landmark video game cases such as Atari v. Nintendo,
Williams

Electronics v. Artic International, and Apple v. Franklin.

Copies of Zeidman’s book, The Software IP Detective's Handbook: Measurement,

Comparison, and Infringement Detection, will be available for signing after
the event. All

proceeds from book sales go to benefit The MADE, a registered 501(c)3
non-profit.

About Bob Zeidman

Bob Zeidman is the founder and president of Zeidman Consulting. Since 1987,
Bob

has designed ASICs, FPGAs, and PC boards for RISC-based parallel processor

systems, laser printers, network switches and routers, and other real time
systems.

His clients have included Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Ricoh Systems, and

Texas Instruments. He has written technical papers on hardware and software
design

methods, and has taught courses on Verilog, ASIC, and FPGA design at
engineering

conferences throughout the world. He holds a master's degree from Stanford
University

and two bachelor's degrees from Cornell University and holds several
patents. He is the

author of The Software IP Detective's Handbook, Designing with FPGAs and
CPLDs,

Verilog Designer's Library, and Introduction to Verilog.

Bob was also the president, CEO, and founder of The Chalkboard Network, an
e-

learning company for engineers and business professionals and is currently
the

president of Zeidman Technologies, a company developing unique software
tools for

efficient development of embedded systems.
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