Cisco has created a software licensing agreement for use across its product areas, including collaboration, security, and infrastructure products. In addition to streamlining the licensing process, ...

Richard Raysman, a partner at Holland & Knight, and Peter Brown, a partner at Baker & Hostetler, discuss the factors courts consider when evaluating whether mixed goods and services software contracts ...

When considering whether software contracts are for the sale of goods or services, most courts turn to the Uniform Commercial Code. Attorneys Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss how courts ...

“While the evolving capabilities of AI bring increased functionality and features, they also raise important legal considerations for parties negotiating software license agreements.” As software ...

Companies spend a lot of money buying and selling usage rights to software and related services. As such, various types of software licensing agreements are becoming ever more important for both IT ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Keeping track of software licenses and contracts that permit their use is not a new problem for IT managers. Software asset management (SAM) has ...

A model summary template to assist in reviewing and summarizing software, cloud computing, and other information technology (IT) agreements as part of a legal due diligence review for a merger or ...

The Air Force has signed a new deal to partner with private sector software and technology providers through a new enterprise software license agreement (ESLA) with Oracle for software engineering and ...

Want to learn more about drafting, negotiating, and understanding intellectual property and technology contracts and have 10 minutes to spare? Grab your morning coffee or afternoon tea and dig into ...

Software providers, asset managers, and licensees can consider various strategies to help assess risk and effectively negotiate software license compliance disputes. Software is the heartbeat of every ...

It’s pretty much standard procedure for astute software suppliers to insist on audit provisions in their software license agreements. The purpose, of course, is to help the supplier protect its ...