As we discussed last week, intellectual property (“IP”) due diligence comes up in many different types of transactions, including licensing transactions, joint development agreements, M&A deals, and venture capital investments.  Anytime an acquisition or investment is based, in part, on the target’s or issuer’s IP – and in the San Francisco Bay Area it frequently […]

Your software company has been approached by a start-up company that has developed a mobile application that could provide your company, indeed your entire industry, with an exciting new platform to deliver products and services to customers globally.  As a CEO, your first instinct is to lock up the start-up’s technology quickly because you don’t […]

As I discussed in our first blog on software licensing published several weeks ago, software has transformed the way we conduct business and is quickly transforming the way we live our lives. It runs virtually all of the devices we take for granted yet use and depend upon to make our day-to-day lives, well more […]