We focus our practice on software, open source, and IP governance
Free and Open-Source Software Counseling
- Developing and implementing product strategies incorporating, depending upon, or entirely based in free and open- source software
- Free and open-source software license interpretation, compliance, and dispute resolution
- Free and open-source audits of client, third-party, and acquired software code bases
- Conducting copyleft, compliance, and patent portfolio impact analyses
- Advising companies on releasing software and patent assets under free and open-source licenses
- Free and open-source governance including developing and implementing free and open-source software policies, practices, and training programs
Software Commercialization, Licensing, and Transactional Counseling
- Developing and implementing software commercialization strategies and distribution models
- Advising on and negotiating software distribution, Application Service Provider (ASP), Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, (PaaS), and content and data-licensing products and services agreements and transactions
- Technical copyright counseling including: clean-room development; DMCA notice and takedown; and competitive software and services development
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Initial Public Offering (IPO), and Investments Counseling
- Intellectual property and free and open-source software audits and strategic counseling
- Free and open-source software copyleft, compliance, and patent impact risk analyses
- Client preparation for investment (M&A, IPO, series investments, etc.)