The Austin Python Meetup Monthly Meetup

We typically have a main presentation or a series of lightning talks, followed by discussion and Q&A. There is a diversity of domains and experience levels represented, so come with your questions and be prepared to talk about how you use Python!

This will be an online meeting - please join the meetup at the link listed. Please note that this link may update and updates may appear in the discussion section below - so scroll down if you have technical difficulties.

The presentations will start after 7, yet feel free to join starting 6:30.

In this meetup we will have the following presentations:

Talk 1: Robert McKee will talk about "Patent Analytics, There And Back Again"

Talk 2: D. C. Toedt III will talk about '''Who "owns" what parts of your code, how much trouble can it get you into, and how can it make you money?'''

Details about the presentations below:

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Talk 1: Robert McKee : "Patent Analytics, There And Back Again"

The talk will cover tools, example code, deployment of AI models, and use cases of patent analytics. I will also talk about how I got started, insights I have learned along the way, who else is working in this area, and why it is important for lawyers to learn these skills.
Robert McKee is a licensed attorney with the USPTO, CA, and TX. Since teaching himself programming in 2014 he has built legal automation tools to make his legal work more efficient and used patent analytics to make more informed recommendations to his clients. He recently made a career switch to the data science industry and now works for TekSystems onsite at Google applying AI chatbots to the telecom industry.

Talk 2: D. C. Toedt III : '''Who "owns" what parts of your code, how much trouble can it get you into, and how can it make you money?'''

Developers aspire to reuse code whenever possible, but doing so can run afoul of both intellectual property rights (in FOSS, or IP rights owned by previous employers and customers) and previous contractual commitments. D. C. Toedt will explore some key takeaways for developers to preserve their flexibility, including a few minutes of AMA (Ask Me Anything), in a Choose Your Own Adventure format.

D. C. Toedt III (the last name is pronounced "Tate") is an attorney in solo practice in Houston and an adjunct law professor at the University of Houston. He was formerly vice president and general counsel of BindView Corporation, a publicly-traded, Houston-based software company (which he helped the founders to start), serving in-house from just after the IPO until the company's exit, when it was acquired by Symantec. Before that, he was a partner in one of the country's largest IP law firms. These days his programming consists mainly of tinkering with org-mode macros, CSS, and the occasional bits of JavaScript and Emacs Lisp, when needed for his current book project, the Tango Terms, a free online manual for his contract-drafting students and other professionals (a work in progress). He comments occasionally at Hacker News and blogs at OnContracts.com, where he maintains a Startup Law 101 page at http://www.OnContracts.com/startup-law.