Technology Transactions & Licensing
Technology Development & Licensing
ZentLaw supports the conception, acquisition, development, integration, and licensing of technology. Our team negotiates complex service agreements and structures transactions involving system development, implementation, and sophisticated technology outsourcing arrangements.
Industry-Spanning Experience
We represent emerging innovators, middle-market companies, global vendors, and institutional technology users. Our attorneys handle diverse technology-related issues affecting operations, product strategy, and digital transformation across industries.
Operational & Transactional Support
ZentLaw advises on a wide range of operational and commercial matters, including business process outsourcing, HR systems, procurement, credit card processing, and insurance claim processing—ensuring technology aligns with business goals.
Technology Transactions
ZentLaw’s Technology Transactions attorneys handle matters related to the acquisition, conception, creation, development, implementation, integration, protection, use, licensing, marketing, and sale of technology. Our experienced team also drafts, negotiates, and advises on complex technology service agreements to facilitate the most complex transactions, including those involving licensing, system development, implementation, and related services, as well as technology outsourcing transactions such as data center, network, telecommunications, applications development and maintenance, help desk, and desktop outsourcing transactions.
Our clients include emerging companies developing cutting-edge technology, middle market companies looking to refocus attention on their core business, established vendors of technology goods and services, and large institutional developers or users of technology throughout the U.S. and around the world. Our attorneys work with a wide variety of issues on behalf of these clients across industries relating to all technological aspects of their operations. This includes advising clients on everything from high-profile business process outsourcing transactions to human resources matters, procurement issues, credit card processing, and insurance claims processing.
ZentLaw has been instrumental in helping us when our legal team hits overload.
— General Counsel, Fortune 100 brand
What We Provide
ZentLaw’s experience in the area of Technology Transactions includes:
- Advising on intellectual property issues including the protection of IP portfolios
- Negotiating complex technology licensing transactions
- Systems integration agreements
- Technology development transactions, including software development agreements and R&D agreements
- Technology distribution arrangements and reseller relationships
- Due diligence and technology transfer issues that arise when a business is being bought or sold
- E-commerce and online terms
Open Source Software
The continuing rise of open source software has been an incredible boon for entrepreneurs, startups, emerging companies, and even established businesses across a number of industries. But while open source software can be an invaluable resource for businesses, especially those in the tech world with limited capital, it also presents an array of legal risks and challenges that may not be apparent until years later, and thus it is critical to work with experienced attorneys who can counsel your business on challenges and create transactional solutions that protect your interests. The Open Source Software practice group of ZentLaw has extensive experience in counseling clients in the area of open source software licensing and compliance.
As a subgroup of our Technology Transactions and IP Law & Licensing Practices, our Open Source Software attorneys have experience in crafting solutions for reducing the legal barriers to using open source software, thus allowing our clients to successfully leverage open source software in their businesses. Our Open Source Software Practice clients range from technology companies seeking to integrate open source software into traditionally proprietary products and services, to companies in a variety of other industries looking to leverage open source software in their environments. Because ZentLaw provides legal counsel and support via flexible pricing and scheduling, our services are well-suited for emerging businesses seeking knowledgeable and experienced counsel on a reasonable budget.
Our forms have been featured by some of the leading legal industry organizations such as the General Counsel Roundtable and American Corporate Counsel Association.
What We Provide
Our experience includes assisting both developers and consumers of open source software with issues such as:
- Developing and implementing open source management and compliance policies
- Managing open source software license compliance and compatibility issues
- Evaluating and selecting open source software licensing models in connection with the release of open source software
- Conducting open source license reviews and diligence audits
- Providing counsel on use of open source software with respect to future investments and acquisitions