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Key Intellectual Property Issues in Today’s Outsourcing TransactionsKey Intellectual Property Issues in Today’s Outsourcing Transactions
William A. Tanenbaum
Chair, Technology, Intellectual Property & Outsourcing Group, and
Chair, GreenTech and Sustainability Group
Kaye Scholer LLP
New York and Palo Alto Offices
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Different IP Rights Apply SimultaneouslyDifferent IP Rights Apply Simultaneously
• Different IP rights apply simultaneously to licensed subject matter
• Patent
• Copyright
• Trade Secret
• Trademark and Service Mark
• National not international in scope
Problem No. 1: Work Made for HireProblem No. 1: Work Made for Hire
• Limitations of the Work Made for Hire Rule
• Why getting an assignment is often best
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Problem No. 2: IP IndemnitiesProblem No. 2: IP Indemnities
• Provider’s right to terminate in event of IP claim can be a bridge too far
• When provider will ask the customer to provide an indemnity
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Problem No. 4: Joint OwnershipProblem No. 4: Joint Ownership
• Collaborate improvements
• Unexpected license by one co-owner to competitor of the other co-owner
• Difference between patent inventorship and copyright authorship
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Problem No. 5: Covenants Not to Sue Problem No. 5: Covenants Not to Sue
• When they are needed
• How to document them
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Problem No. 6: Scope of License Grants Problem No. 6: Scope of License Grants
• If there are multiple providers, which provider needs a license from another to provide services to the common customer?
• Avoid territorial limitations to allow use at DR site and/or by another entity
• Advantages of contractual definition of “Use”
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Problem No. 7: Software EscrowProblem No. 7: Software Escrow
• Do you need software escrow?
• If so, what goes in escrow?
– Programmer’s names and contact info
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Questions and Answers Questions and Answers
William A. Tanenbaum
Chair, Technology, Intellectual Property & Outsourcing Group
Chair, GreenTech and Sustainability Group
Kaye Scholer LLP, New York and Palo Alto
212-836-7661
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William A. [email protected] A. [email protected]
• William A. Tanenbaum is the international chair of Kaye Scholer’s Technology, Intellectual Property & Outsourcing Group and its GreenTech and Sustainability Group and works in the firm’s New York and Palo Alto offices. Chambers found that he “built one of New York City’s most outstanding transactional IT practices,” that he is a “well-respected attorney, with a well-informed approach [who] provides litigation, transaction work and strategic counseling on a range of technology issues,” that he is “efficient, solution-driven and makes excellent judgment calls,” and that he is an “internationally recognized intellectual property, technology and outsourcing lawyer”. He is recognized as a “Leading Individual” and was awarded “Recommended” ratings in both “Technology and IT Outsourcing” and “Business Process Outsourcing,” and named as a “Notable Practitioner” at the national level in Outsourcing. He was voted one of the world’s top 250 IP strategists (IAM client survey) and he was selected as one of the country’s top 25 pre-eminent IT practitioners in the Best of the Best USA. He regularly advises clients on strategic intellectual property concerns, privacy, data security, data transfer, information life cycle management and competitive intelligence matters, in both transactional and litigation contexts.
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William A. Tanenbaum (cont’d)William A. Tanenbaum (cont’d)
• Mr. Tanenbaum is the founder and co-chair of PLI’s annual Outsourcing Conference, the founder and chair of its Green Technology conference, and a regular lecturer at industry outsourcing conferences. He chairs Kaye Scholer’s GreenTech breakfast seminar series and presents a webcasts on IT, IP and GreenTech topics. He has contributed to Bloomberg’s Energy Sustainability Law Report. He is a past President of the International Technology Law Association (formerly the Computer Law Association) and is listed in Who’s Who in America, the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, the Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Experts and the Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Law Experts. He is the privacy and data protection columnist for the New York Law Journal, co-author of a book on privacy law and has been quoted in The Economist magazine as an expert on IP law. His articles have been used at Harvard and other law schools. He graduated from Brown University (degree with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa) and Cornell Law School.
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