INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & E-COMMERCE
Piché Handford LLP can advise you on, and assist you with, various elements of the law relating to intellectual property, information technology and E-Commerce, including:
Information Technology/Computer Law
- System (hardware and/or software) acquisition agreements
- Software license, development, support/maintenance, marketing, and distribution agreements (paper or web-forms)
- Co-development, co-marketing, and strategic partnering agreements
- SAAS and ASP agreements
- Outsourcing agreements
- Implementation agreements
- Requests for proposals and responses to requests for proposals relating to all of the above
- Copyright and other intellectual property rights and concerns relating to computer software
- Intellectual property transfer documentation (particularly important in business acquisition and company-employee/independent contractor settings)
E-Commerce
- Website policies, terms and conditions
- On-line agreements
- Internet privacy concerns/data collection and use
- Web page structuring/placement of legal elements
- Web branding
- Domain name acquisition, preservation and retrieval
- Trade-mark registration and protection
General business concerns
- Non-disclosure documentation - for would-be partners, suppliers, customers, employees, independent contractors
- Intellectual property transfer documentation - for business acquisitions, company-employee/independent contractor situations, and otherwise
- Investment negotiations and documentation - from seed capital through angel funding to venture capital
- Planning and structuring for going public or for being an acquisition target
- General corporate and business matters - business and corporate structuring and restructuring; internal corporate documentation such as shareholders' agreements and employment stock option plans; purchases and sales of businesses, etc. Please see the descriptions of other services we provide in the corporate law and commercial law fields.
