Technology Transactions
Our Technology Transactions group leverages our technology experience, business acumen, and transactional knowledge to help our clients acquire, protect, enforce and monetize their intellectual property. If your business uses or develops intellectual property, the value of your IP assets and your entire business can be affected by how your technology transactions are structured. We can assist you in creating a strategy for, and structuring, negotiating, drafting and implementing, technology-related agreements to enhance and protect the value of your IP assets. In doing so, we frequently collaborate with our intellectual property litigation colleagues, who enjoy a national reputation as leading IP trial attorneys, and whose decades of experience litigating intellectual property matters help us anticipate and prevent IP-related risks.
Whom We Represent
We have broad experience representing diverse clientele in technology and intellectual property-related transactions. We represent creators, investors and businesses of all sizes, from start-up to Fortune 500 companies, as well as governmental entities.
Our Experience
We regularly counsel clients regarding:
- Development, manufacturing, and commercialization agreements
- Intellectual property and technology acquisitions and divestments
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Patent and technology licenses, including in adversarial contexts
- Sourcing arrangements, including off-shoring
- Distribution, supply, and OEM agreements
- Content acquisition and management
- Software licensing
- Distributive media transactions
- Internet law and agreements
- Open source development and distribution
Selected Transactions*
Notable representative transactions include:
- Strategic alliances by Best Buy with providers of digital music, video and other digital content
- Supply, license, consulting and other agreements for Electrosonic Services
- Supply, license and other agreements for Dilithium Networks
Business Practices > Technology Transactions