Services
Commercial and Intellectual Property
- Development of Business Models and Pricing Models
- End User License Agreements
- Terms of Use/ Service
- App Licenses
- Acceptable Use Policies
- Content Licenses
- Data Security Policies
- Privacy Policies and GDPR compliance for U.S. companies
- Sales Agreements
- Channel Agreements including distribution, sales representatives, warehouse and 3PL agreements.
- Procurement Agreements
- Engineering support including development of open source use and compliance policies
- Creation of dual licensing models
- Open source contribution agreements
- API and Developer licenses
- Inbound license review and negotiations
- Patent Incentive Programs
- Intellectual Property Protection including advice on securing and licensing patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other confidential information
- U.S. trademark registration and advertising compliance. Management of foreign registrations through foreign counsel.
- Legal support for enterprise risk management efforts including data privacy and security programs, business continuity plans, disaster recovery plans, and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (“PCIDSS”) Level 1 compliance programs
International
- Advise foreign entities on establishing business in the United States
- Introductions to immigration, accounting and tax professionals and supply chain experts for hardware companies
- Advise foreign entities on product liability issues and risk management
- Localize foreign commercial agreements for the US market
- Assist US clients expanding business or sales operations to other countries or distributing goods or services outside the United States through established relationships with local counsel
- Advise on manufacturing agreements with suppliers outside the United States
Corporate Governance
- Support for officers and directors on issues of fiduciary duties, compliance, charters, policies, and best practices for boards of directors and committees
- Act as outside “general counsel” for entities without a legal department
- In-house training on select legal issues
Employment
- Offer letters and onboarding agreements
- Employee confidentiality and intellectual property protection agreements
- Contractor and consultant agreement and advise on limitations and risks
- Internal investigations
- Exit agreements, reductions-in-force
- Policies and procedures, compliance programs and dispute resolution guidance
Dispute Resolution
- Dispute resolution, mediation, litigation management, and prevention programs including enforceable arbitration provisions to mitigate class action risks, and UDRP arbitration over domain name disputes