Intangible ideas and innovations are crucial to success in the marketplace. We create effective strategies for the commercializing, monetizing, and defending IP rights and technology assets.
UB Greensfelder provides sophisticated counsel to established clients seeking to leverage greater value from their intellectual property. Our knowledgeable attorneys have extensive experience in technology and intellectual property transactions, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade-secret licensing and transfer transactions.
Who We Are
Success in innovation-driven niches also often depends on properly structured licensing transactions involving a diverse array of tangible and intangible assets and technologies. Our attorneys have the technical industry expertise and legal background to counsel clients in staying one step ahead of fast-moving developments in technology and intellectual property.
How We Help
Our attorneys regularly advise clients with sophisticated technology and information technology transactions, and in developing intellectual property and commercial strategies that protect intellectual property assets, build strong relationships, and meet overall business and technology objectives, including:
- Intellectual property aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and business divestitures, including IP due diligence considerations
- Intellectual property acquisitions and asset sales
- Technology procurement and commercialization
- Multiple-site ERP and CRM software implementations
- Patent, trademark, copyright, and technology license agreements from both licensor and licensee perspectives
- Software and information systems development agreements
- Information systems outsourcing and related services agreements
- Biotechnology and life sciences transfer, development, licensing, support, commercialization, and M&A agreements
- Effective negotiating, with an understanding of industry practices, common pitfalls, and creative solutions in connection with both intellectual property and technology transactions
- Trademark portfolio transfers and technology transfer agreements
- Website development, web hosting, and related agreements
- Internet service provider and application service provider agreements
- Joint marketing and distribution agreements
- Product development agreements relating to medical technology
Representative Matters:
- Structuring joint development and patent license arrangements for a research and development company in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Negotiating telecommunications, hardware, and software license agreements for one of the nation’s largest private converged networks, with data, voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) and video capabilities.
- Negotiating a SaaS-based outsourcing and mission-critical software license arrangement between a financial institution client and ASP-model the software solution and services provider, including structuring service level agreement, escrow, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Negotiating a license of a unique paint-spraying invention for the automotive industry
- Negotiating agreements with medical device manufacturers and physicians who participate in product development.
