Open Source Software and the Collaborative Culture

• Author: Donna P. Suchy, Susan E. McGahan, Adriana Suringa Luedke, John Colligan
• Pages: 46-51

Published in Landslide® magazine, Volume 12, Number 4, a publication of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law (ABA-IPL), ©2020 by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved.

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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

AND THE COLLABORATIVE CULTURE

Donna P. Suchy is managing IP attorney at Collins Interiors, part of United Technologies, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She specializes in all areas

of corporate IP law, teaches IP law at the University of California and University of Iowa, and is the former chair of the ABA-IPL Section. She

can be reached at suchy.law@gmail.com. Susan E. McGahan is an assistant vice president and senior legal counsel at AT&T. She handles all

IP matters for AT&T, including transactional work, assertion, licensing, patent sales, litigation, trademark enforcement, big data, and FOSS issues.

She can be reached at sm1561@att.com. Adriana Suringa Luedke is associate general counsel of IP and technology law at Lockheed Martin

Corporation. She is responsible for providing legal support on a wide array of corporate IP matters, including strategic IP initiatives, corporate

acquisitions, resolution of infringement matters, and advising on data rights and other government contract issues. She can be reached at

adriana.s.luedke@lmco.com. John Colligan is an attorney at McGarryBair PC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He specializes in all areas of IP law,

including patent, trade secret, copyright, open source, and social media issues. He can be reached at jfc@mcgarrybair.com.

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