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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.