On October 14th the MIT Enterprise Forum held a webinar entitled “Once Upon a Time in …Medical Device and Open Source Land.” In this webinar Alexander Adam, medical device expert and Principal at my Firm, medical device innovator, Navin Dewagan, and open source software expert, Matt Jacobs from Synopsys, Inc. discussed some of the effective and practical strategies to reap the benefits of open source software for medical devices, how to maximize the value of your patents and software innovations using open source licensing, and how patents are used in innovative ways to complement open source software.