When negotiating a technology licensing agreement, it is important to take the matter seriously and carefully consider all factors before entering into the contract. For this reason, it is important to know what to avoid in order to protect your rights, your intellectual property, and promote a deal that will bring your organization maximum revenue. […]
A recent letter from Attorney John O’Brien to a client, which provides some valuable information and perspective. For more information about Technology Licensing and Contracting, view our page here. Dear Client, Thanks for sharing the article on cumulative damages. I think that was skewed toward the customer, or maybe I have been on the vendor […]
OEMs, are used by companies that take portions of products from one or more companies to build a separate product that they then sell as its own brand. Value-added resellers, or VARs, are the outside companies involved, since by incorporating the components and amplifying the product, the original product’s value is raised. “Original equipment manufacturer” […]
Reseller’s agreements have been an important staple of the tech distribution community, for both hardware products and software products for many years. If some case Resellers are engaged to address geographic or specialized industry segments that the vendor cannot address directly. In some instances the reseller may have related industry expertise that is combined with […]
For software manufacturers and the companies that utilize licensed software, software licensing is often a very complex matter with such a wide range of licenses perpetual, term and SaaS licenses are the most common structures in commercial use for licenses. However, within each of those commercial license structures there is a nearly infinite variety of […]
