Intellectual Property

Challenge

Intellectual property is an essential asset of many companies. While intangible, quite often it represents the most significant property of a company. Intellectual property may be in many forms, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. Any infringement or violation of IP rights is a severe threat to the very existence of many companies. For software IP, the task of finding and proving such violations represents a challenge. Our society needs not only manual but also automatic tools for this task.

Approach

IDA Pro perfectly fits the task because it can be used as a foundation to develop an automatic system to find copyright infringements, IP theft, and patent violations. Manual inspection remains available too.

An IDA plugin by Check Point Research can identify open-source software in closed source binaries:

Karta - Matching Open Sources in Binaries

KAIST devised a way to implement Binary Code Similarity Analysis with IDA Pro:

Revisiting Binary Code Similarity Analysis using Interpretable Feature Engineering

Software Litigation Consulting explains how reverse engineering can help with patent violation detection:

Hiding in Plain Sight: Using Reverse Engineering to Uncover Software Patent Infringement

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Intellectual Property

Challenge

Approach

An IDA plugin by Check Point Research can identify open-source software in closed source binaries:

KAIST devised a way to implement Binary Code Similarity Analysis with IDA Pro:

Software Litigation Consulting explains how reverse engineering can help with patent violation detection:

Get started with the IDA version that fits your needs

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