You’re the CEO of a software company. You’ve identified a new start-up company that claims to have developed a mobile application that could provide your company, indeed your entire industry, with an exciting new platform to deliver products and services to fast moving customers globally. Your board of directors has authorized you to move forward […]
Conducting Effective IP Due Diligence: Make Sure You Get Off On The Right Foot
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 […]
Conducting Effective Due Diligence in Intellectual Property Transactions
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 […]
Software Licensing: A Clear Grant Clause Makes For Happy Parties
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 […]
Recent Licensing Contract Victory
We recently handled a matter for an engineering firm based in San Jose that was negotiating a deal to provide consulting and training services to the customers of a large software company based in San Francisco. The customers, who were scattered all over the globe, needed training and technical assistance on how to use the […]