Looking back on OOXML: SC 34 Recommends ISO “Reforms”

November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

Although much of the brouhaha of the OOXML adoption process has abated, the post-partum process of reviewing how SC 34 gave birth to IS 29500 continues. SC 34 is the committee in ISO/IEC that adopted both ODF and OOXML. SC 34 continues to hold meetings in which a variety of related matters are […]

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Innovation past and future: What Price Venture Capital?

November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

If you hail from one of the hot beds of high tech - Silicon Valley, say, or (in my case) the Route 128/495 area of Massachusetts, you’ve doubtless heard the phrase “serial entrepreneur.” What those words describe is someone who has started several companies, and the phrase, when used, is invariably regarded as a […]

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  • Andy Updegrove

     Andy Updegrove

    Andy Updegrove is a partner and founder of Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a Boston-based technology law firm, and has represented and helped structure more than 80 worldwide standard setting, open source, promotional and advocacy consortia over the past 20 years. He has also represented hundreds of both emerging as well as established technology companies, and is the founder and editor of both the popular website http://www.consortiuminfo.org and the widely-read Standards Blog

  • Karen Copenhaver

     Karen Copenhaver

    Karen Copenhaver is a partner in Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP ‘s Business & Technology practice focusing on technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property with a specific emphasis on open source business models. Most recently, Copenhaver was executive vice president and general counsel at Black Duck Software, Inc.