Skilled negotiating can mean the difference between a highly effective licensing agreement and a useless one. Our intellectual property group includes lawyers who have represented multinational companies and emerging ventures in preparing and negotiating intellectual property license agreements and development agreements in the United States and abroad in fields as diverse as aerospace, information technology, cable television, consumer products, computer software, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

Together, we have:

• Prepared and negotiated distribution agreements covering North America and Japan for the makers of software development tools, and the transfers of trademarks and Internet domain names for online media companies
• Negotiated cross-border technology transfer, joint development and cross-licensing agreements in the fields of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, domain names and right of publicity
• Counseled the U.S. subsidiary of a European company in the acquisition of high-tech companies in Canada and the sale of its business to a leading U.S. Internet networking company