Legal IQ recently conducted an interview with Dave McAllister, Director of Open Source at Adobe Systems about the latest Open Screen developments.

He offers some exclusive reflections on his work with Steve Jobs: “He honestly was one of the most futuristic geniuses I've ever seen, able to figure the directions for the broad-based consumer and the high-end prosumer.”

He's going to be delivering a presentation on day one of Legal iQ’s 6^th Annual Global Patent Congress on patent portfolio strategy, licensing and monetisation. His presentation will cover in depth open innovation business strategies and how to ensure smooth operations.

Part 1 - Adobe’s open innovation concept

Dave talks to Mikk Putk, IP Insiders blogger, about the risks when tying open innovation to business strategies and how it affects intellectual property protection (IP): “If we're going to release a technology as open source we also expect, Adobe’s belief is that we are making the directly related patents that we hold on that available for others to use.”

Part 2 - The impact of open development

Dave then speaks to Stephen Jenei, Patent Baristas blogger, about the ongoing Apple v. Adobe/Flash Player v. HTML5 dispute and the future of Flash and open developmentat Adobe : “Flash and the Flash platform, which includes Adobe AIR, have moved to providing unique capabilities to marketplaces that are interested in advanced features. So we're seeing Flash continue to innovate, but move the standard capabilities off to other platforms.”

Please click here for the full interview mp3 and transcript.

This interview was conducted ahead of Legal iQ’s 6^th Annual Global Patent Congress. For more details, please download the programme here. Alternatively, please visit http://www.patentcongress.com/News. To attend, please register online, call +44 207 036 1300 or email enquire@iqpc.co.uk.

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