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Technology Sellers
Standardized Contract Sets
Developing New Contracts
Working from our extensive forms library, we can develop standardized contracts for your routine transactions with customers and clients. Object Code License Agreements, Source Code License Agreements, Consulting Services Agreements, Nondisclosure Agreements, Black- and White-Label Sublicensing Agreements, Statements of Work, Demonstration Licenses, and more.
Revising Old Contracts
If you've been working with the same set of contracts for a number of years, it may be time for a tune-up. We can help you conform existing agreements to changes in the law, build in additional protections for you, and often shorten lengthy contracts down to a more manageable size. If your average negotiations cycle with customers and clients is longer that you'd like, we can make your standardized contracts more "user friendly" while fully protecting your IP, preserving your margin potentials, and mitigating risk.
Menuscript Contracts
We can also develop contracts for your specialized or one-off transactions. Thanks to our extensive forms library, we rarely have to draft anything entirely from scratch, which saves you time and money.
Customer and Client Negotiations
Leave the Busy Work to Us
By relying upon the firm for the majority of your customer and client negotiations, you free up time for what you do best: developing, selling and implementing your products and services. With provision-by-provision thresholds and exception protocols established by you, we work to close routine deals and keep your customers and clients happy. As attorneys we speak authoritatively on your sensitive contract points, explaining in simple terms to your customers and clients why you cannot concede in negotiations beyond certain boundaries. On the most difficult of issues, we're happy to play "bad cop", allowing you to preserve relations with your customer or client. As you would expect, prefer and require, all matters of business judgment (e.g., pricing) must be deferred to you. When we participate directly in the negotiation process, it's much easier for us to draft any necessary contract revisions.
Experience and Judgment Working for You
Trust us to help you determine what to sweat and what to let go of in the course of negotiations. You'll likely close more deals in less time, while still protecting your interests along the way. For more complex and otherwise special transactions, we're happy to support your direct negotiations with clients and draft revisions to your standard contracts as required.
Customer and Client Contracting
Detailed Documentation
By documenting your transactions comprehensively and in great detail, you keep you customers and clients happy, protect your margins and mitigate risk. Should a deal or engagement go south, you'll appreciate what good contracts can do for you in terms of limiting your exposure and serving as a basis for fair and meaningful resolution of a dispute.
Customer and Client Focus
We can help you streamline your customer and client negotiation and contracting process while protecting your interests at the same time. Starting with balanced agreements is a way to close more deals efficiently, but demonstrating flexibility during negotiations and within your finalized contracts with customers and clients also helps. We understand both sides of the technology buy-sell equation, and we're uniquely equipped produce contracts that satisfy both your management and your clients. Let us put our win-win philosopy to work for you.
Sublicensing Transactions
We can help you negotiate and develop all contracts in support of your sublicensing deals and transactions. We have done numerous black- and white-label sublicensing deals, and we'd love to put our knowledge and expertise in this area to work for you.
Protecting IP and Securing Revenue Due
Sublicensing is all about protecting your intellectual property and securing all royalties associated with sublicensed use of your intellectual property. We help you cover these critical factors as well as all ancillary considerations associated with sub licensure of intellectual property.
Client as Sublicensee
When you want to sublicense another party's intellectual property, we work to assure that you receive fair terms and necessary protections. Broad indemnifications and infringement protections, as well as the where with all to back them up, are essential.
Project Stewardship
Managing Project Changes
For our consulting services and software developer clients, we offer a service that we call "project stewardship". For complicated projects and extended services engagements, change is inevitable. Changes in project scope, changes in personnel, and changes in roles and responsibilities, and other changes. We help our clients negotiate project changes and then modify base contracts accordingly.
Legal Effects
A single project change can ripple through the legal rights and duties of the parties as expressed in the base contracts for a project, and unless very specific amendments are made to the base contracts, legal rights and duties become muddled. With multiple changes, the situation worsens. It's not wise to rely on a one-page change order alone to document a project change and its effect on the overall project. It's better to harmonize change orders with all base contract provisions, including cost estimates, timing of deliverables, milestone incentives and penalties, and other substantial contract provisions that may be affected. We're here to help you adhere to t
Client Dispute Resolution
Early Interventions
When a complicated project or extended engagement starts to go south, bringing in outside help sooner than later is usually best. It's best to attempt to resolve a dispute before emotions have flared, frustrations have mounted and a flash point is just around the corner. If you're an existing client of the firm, we can intervene early and help get your project on track. We represent you, of course, but in this context with demonstrated and credible objectivity. If you're not a current client of the firm, we can offer to mediate as a genuine third-party objective.
Legal and Equitable Considerations
As attorneys, we can mediate with legal principles at hand, but we know that your client is not necessarily interested in strict interpretations of rhw law and rules of contract construction. We often promote equitable (as opposed to purely legal) resolutions to a dispute, but we never ignore the weight of actual legal rights that may come to bear should a dispute not be resolved amicably. We understand complicated technology projects, we're intellectual property attorneys, and we're uniquely positioned to promote the just resolution of technology project disputes.
Project Rescue
Rescue and Recovery
Despite your organization's professionalism and good execution, you will experience a troubled IT project from time to time. Whether due to your client's unreasonable expectations, poor project planning, or multiple mid-course changes to project scope, you will experience the occasional disgruntled client. The firm offers a unique approach to the rescue and recovery of troubled IT projects that relies upon information technology subject matter expertise and legal expertise, with an emphasis on expedient resolution of conflict and proper documentation of project redirection. If you have a troubled project on your hands, and you think your project might benefit from outside intervention, your hunch is probably correct. And usually, the sooner the intervention the better.
Project Remediation
In the event we determine together that your project is not recoverable, we offer project remediation services aimed at reducing your financial burden and legal exposure associated with the failed project. After an initial discovery period, we help you determine what concessions might be appropriate in order produce an amicable separation, and we assist in negotiating closure with your client. Terms of separation are documented in an appropriate closure agreement. In all events, you want to avoid litigation of project disputes because litigation is expensive and its outcomes uncertain.
