Wood Herron & Evans’ lawyers are equipped not only to provide legal assistance with the prosecution of software and computer patent applications, but also with the business aspects of information technology, including assistance with:
• Drafting and negotiation, from either side of the transaction, of:
» Acquisitions and divestitures
» Development agreements
» Consulting agreements
» Outsourcing agreements
» ASP agreements
» Marketing and distribution agreements
» License agreements
» Beta test and evaluation agreements
• Counseling and advice concerning:
» Open source
» Due diligence in acquisitions
» Clean room procedures
» Privacy and data security
» Trade secret programs
» Rights clearance and permissioning
• Copyright searching and registration
• Litigation and dispute resolution
• Patent searching and prosecution concerning:
» Embedded systems
» Consumer electronics
» Digital signal processors
» Medical devices
» Imaging equipment
» Error correction algorithms
» Video compression/decompression algorithms
» Cellular/wireless systems
» Object oriented applications and architectures
» Data transmission formats/protocols/storage
» Advanced microprocessors/memory architectures
» Radio frequency/bar code ID algorithms
» Multi-user/multi-processor computer platforms
» Networking/clustering/fault tolerant systems
» Database organization/standard query language execution algorithms