Resource Library

This is a sample master services agreement between a limited liability company and a contractor.

This session focuses on how to structure the transaction, what to watch out for when conducting IP due diligence and which contractual protections are advisable to ensure that such risks are mitigated.

General counsel and their teams work on improving corporate governance to reduce risk and costs, improving practices for communication with directors and management to facilitate parent and subsidiary board meetings and making securities compliance easier and more reliable. There are lots of new—and changing—tools and techniques, such as vetting vendors for board voting tools, securities compliance, cloud-based hosted systems, improving staffing and technology for minute-taking, and updating policies for insider trading, data protection, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and fiduciary duties. Keeping abreast of best practices, vendor-provided trainings, peer group policies and hosted solutions allows a legal department to lower costs, mitigate risks and drive value for the business. This session will address topics of interest to private and public companies, with a focus on issues common to both.

People, companies and even governments generate an enormous amount of data about themselves every day. From ordering a latte without foam to negotiating a major contract, there is a growing perceived need to collect and mine the resulting data for useful insights about markets, customers, competitors or competitive threats. How can we do this? What legal issues surround the collection of this data? What issues surround the use of the data? If your company is using big data, what should it be concerned about? How does it stay out of trouble and out of the headlines?

This presentation will examine the risks/rewards of using open-source software (OSS) for productivity purposes within a corporation versus incorporating OSS into a product or solution that is presented and sold to the public; and recent trends in indemnifications, warranties and other considerations for OSS that is embedded within the software and/or application.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses how a company can balance between promoting its magazine online via virtual sharing while still protecting the IP (copyright) protection of the medium. This resource, which has a US-law focus, was compiled from questions and responses posted on the eForum of the Intellectual Property ACC Network

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Intellectual Property forum*, addresses whether an employee can co-Own IP created for their employer.

Whenever commercial or industrial property is sold, leased or financed, the checklist of due diligence items includes a Phase I environmental site assessment (Phase I). This article explores what Phase Is are and why we do them.

This brief overview (QuickCounsel) provides an overview of a threat every company is facing today - the risks posed by the theft of company trade secrets and confidential information in the employment setting.

This brief article presents the top ten reasons to update your corporate Intellectual Property and information strategy, especially if you practice within the United States, the European Union or in the United Kingdom.