PRACTICE AREAS

 

What We Do for Clients

Our lawyers have extensive experience representing some of the world’s most innovative companies on transactions involving significant intellectual property, information technology, software, and data rights.  Because we know technology, we speak our client’s language, and understand the rights and protections that our clients need throughout their product and business growth cycles.

 

Technology Transactions

  • Technology development and co-development agreements

  • Technology and intellectual property sales, including sales of trademarks, patent portfolios, products, and software code

  • Strategic alliances and joint ventures

  • M&A, and other sales of businesses or IP portfolios

Healthcare IT, Healthcare & Compliance 

  • Commercializing healthcare IT related products and services

  • Navigating the complex and changing regulatory environment, including HIPAA & TEFCA

  • Data rights protection, data use licensing, and monetization

  • Creating privacy policies and terms of use for websites and web-based offerings

  • Drafting or negotiating Business Associate Agreements

  • Entering into strategic relationships with industry partners and value-added resellers

Open Source Software

  • Open source compliance policies, processes and audits

  • Open source and mixed licensing models

  • Open source code contributions and releases 

Intellectual Property

  • API and toolkit licenses

  • Open source licensing

  • University licensing and technology transfer

  • Content and trademark licenses

Licensing and Other Commercial Agreements

  • Software license and SaaS agreements 

  • Data protection, analytics, and licensing

  • OEM, distribution and reseller agreements

  • Consultant and contractor agreements

  • Product and service terms and conditions 

  • Master Service Agreements (MSAs) and Service level agreements (SLAs)

  • Software and technology evaluation agreements

  • Proprietary information and invention assignment agreements (PIIAs) for employees

  • Outsourcing agreements

  • NDAs and other arrangements to share and protect trade secrets

Standards Setting Organizations

  • Creation and founding of Standards Setting Organizations (SSOs)

  • Counseling and representation at SSOs

  • Board of Directors counseling

  • Open standards compliance and strategy

Corporate and Commercial Transactions

  • Employment agreements

  • Board of Directors counseling

  • M&A