Invention begins with a creative thought, but valuable intellectual property begins and ends with the law. Successful companies use the law to secure ownership of technologies invented by their employees and consultants; to leverage the value of those assets and enhance their reach through alliances, distribution channels, and licensing; and to ensure that they get what they are paying for in systems acquisitions and other infrastructure deals.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in the full spectrum of technology transactions, representing every type of participant. We work with dot.coms, application service providers, software developers and hardware manufacturers; custom design shops and consultants; purchasers of information and telecommunications systems; government contractors and sponsors of university research; inventors and pure intellectual property licensing companies; and distributors and service providers.

We are active as lecturers, authors and editors of professional publications in our field and stay in constant touch with developments in technology transfer, both through representation of our clients and participation in pertinent bar and professional organizations.

Representative Matters:

• Licensed patents, copyrights, trademarks, know-how and software, representing both licensors and licensees in industries from electronics and entertainment to geographic information systems, logistics and health care
• Structured strategic alliances and joint ventures, both equity-based and contractual, with cross-licensing, distribution and co-development features, often representing emerging companies in their breakthrough alliances with Fortune 500 companies
• Procured mission-critical, multi-vendor information systems and outsourcing services for both dot.coms and e-commerce players and old-economy firms such as hospitals and restaurant chains
• Designed and implemented domestic and international distribution networks and OEM, VAR and licensing programs for software and hardware products and medical devices
• Assisted in the commercialization of university research, on behalf of both corporate sponsors and academic entrepreneurs
• Advised participants in government technology transfer and development programs such as Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), Small Business Innovative Research grants and NASA's EOCAP grant program
• Assisted technology vendors in government procurements at all levels, including defense contracting and sales to a majority of the National Laboratories