Posts Tagged: Contract Law
Don’t Let the Pandemic End Your Startup: Tips for Shoring Up Agreements Among Business Partners
Starting your own business is exciting. Finding the right partner to share the same vision is vital for the company’s future success. However, people don’t …
Protecting Contracts in the Age of COVID-19: ‘Material Adverse Change’ Clauses
As outside general counsel to over 150 emerging growth companies in recent years, as well as to their venture capital and growth equity investors, and as someone who …
Contracts 101: Covenants, Representations and Warranties in IP License Agreements
It continually amazes me that many business folks who negotiate tons of IP license agreements, fail to understand the difference between covenants, representations, and warranties that are “…
Federal Circuit to decide if licensing agreement can prevent validity challenge at PTAB
The Federal Circuit has agreed to expeditiously hear an appeal from Dodocase VR, Inc. v. Merchsource, LLC No. 17cv7088 (N.D. Cal.) (“Dodocase”) in which the district …
Securing Ownership Rights in Patents in the Real World
The basement inventor is increasingly rare, although I am old enough (and lucky enough) to know several. Invention in the “real world” is often a messy, team …
Toronto Real Estate Board Dispute Shows Awkwardness of Copyright Protection for Databases
Legal protection for databases in Canada is, perhaps surprisingly, a little convoluted. In some jurisdictions, unique database rights have been legislated (e.g. the EU). This is …
California Non-Competes: Things You Can Do ‘Around the Edges’
There are not many things an employer can do to prevent unfettered competition by a former employee. B&P Section 16600 states that “every contract by which anyone …
Is There Such a Thing as “Entertainment Law”?
A lot of law students and young attorneys aim to get into the field of “entertainment law.” Today, entertainment law is more of a combination of contract …
