Licensing & Technology Transactions

Read our guide to common contract traps emerging technology companies can face when negotiating contracts with large customers that have a master services agreement, including disadvantageous terms and the omission of clauses that protect vendors.

Read about how companies can increase the enforceability of digital contracts, online terms incorporated by reference into non-electronic agreements, and updates of online terms.

This Mintz advisory reviews the challenges associated with agile software development contracts and provides best practices to avoid rising costs and legal disputes.

Although the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic Inc. may eliminate or severely restrict the assignor estoppel doctrine, an assignee can limit exposure to challenges through provisions in an asset purchase agreement

This alert covers new regulations taking effect on February 13, 2020 that significantly broaden CFIUS’s jurisdiction by granting it significant new review power over foreign investments in US businesses and real estate.

Read Mintz partner Julie Korostoff’s article on the increase in software license audits. Her article also explores the sizeable true-up payments that often follow licensing reviews and how companies can respond to audit requests, ensure compliance, and limit the scope of audits.

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On February 8, 2015, the Board of Governors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (“IEEE”) approved changes to the IEEE Patent Policy that provide additional specificity as to the nature of the obligation attaching to member-owned patents that are essential to an IEEE standard.