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Overview

Driving business deals

Intellectual property drives innovation, fuels strategic business growth, and anchors transformative technology deals. Whether you’re licensing cutting-edge software, negotiating joint development agreements, or acquiring emerging technologies, protecting and maximizing the value of intellectual property is critical to success.

At Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig, our technology transactions and licensing team combines deep legal expertise with a thorough understanding of technology markets to deliver solutions that provide a competitive edge. Our approach goes beyond drafting and negotiating agreements. We help clients unlock the full potential of their intellectual property assets, providing strategic counsel to mitigate risks, drive innovation, and align IP with overarching business goals. Whether supporting a merger, managing cross-border transactions, or navigating complex licensing negotiations, we ensure that technology works for you, not against you.

 

Our experience with technology transactions, mergers, acquisitions, and licensing

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig’s technology transactions and licensing team represents clients across a variety of fields and disciplines, including universities, hardware companies, and emerging tech companies. Here are some of our recent representative client engagements:

  • Guided software companies in licensing their SaaS products while maintaining both registered code copyright protection and trade secrets rights in source code
  • Advised acquiring technology companies in licensing their SaaS products, ensuring strategic benefits and control over operations and assets
  • Represented a biotechnology company on licensing technology and patents from universities and government entities, negotiating contracts and securing patents and trademarks
  • Advised biotechnology companies on mergers and acquisitions, explaining the differences and implications of each
  • Represented a large national university in protecting and securing intellectual property rights for an electronic medical records system for a private sale of the multi-hospital system to a private company
  • Represented a large national university in joint development agreements, ensuring compliance with legal standards and obligations
  • Represented federal government entities in intellectual property registrations and licensing matters
  • Represented federal government entities in development agreements, outlining obligations and standards for property development
  • Represented large national patent portfolio holders in licensing technology to third-party infringers
  • Represented large national patent portfolio holders in extension agreements, allowing flexibility for market conditions
  • Defended defense article manufacturers in licensing disputes and compliance matters
  • Represented and advised technology clients on overseas manufacturing agreements and U.S. distribution agreements

Our intellectual property team consists of technologically savvy lawyers with knowledge of Oracle APEX, Node.js and HTML, Java, and Agular, among other software systems. Our lawyers have also earned advanced degrees in biotechnology and hold their own patents in fields as diverse as nanoparticle technology and medical devices. This unique combination of technical and legal knowledge allows us to address even the most complex technology transactions with precision and insight.

Additionally, our licensing and transactional lawyers work closely with our patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets lawyers, as well as with our litigation team, to provide counsel and guidance throughout deals and to handle any disputes that arise.

 

What our technology transactions and licensing lawyers do

  • Advise clients on how to protect their technology, data, and intellectual property
  • Negotiate strategic alliances, joint ventures, collaborations, and outsourcing agreements
  • Draft inbound software and technology licensing agreements
  • Assist clients in all forms of technology transactions, including buy-side and sell-side and mergers and acquisitions
  • Complete due diligence of intellectual property portfolios to prepare for closings
  • Conduct internal intellectual property audits
  • Navigate intellectual property ownership issues in artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Structure agreements for blockchain technologies and decentralized systems

Partners

Charles Cantine

Partner

Joseph (Joe) Diamante

Partner

Thomas Dunlap

Partner

William Flachsbart

Partner

Robert Greenspoon

Partner

Dubs Herschlip

Partner

Raymond Jones

Partner

David Ludwig

Partner

Team

Stephanie Fields

Associate

Daniel Davis

Senior Associate

Mark Magas

Senior Associate

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Intellectual Property

Intern Program

As part of our effort to recruit, develop and retail the best and brightest attorneys, Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig offers a summer intern program for promising law school students who are looking to work as part of an innovative and incredibly successful team. With a global team of lawyers, selected candidates are able to work on high level projects in a collaborative space.

Paralegals and Legal Support Staff

At Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig, our team of paralegals and staff work together collaboratively along side our attorneys toward a common goal. We have created a positive work environment where our paralegals and legal assistants work to successfully reach firm-wide goals and support each other to combine individual strengths to enhance team performance. They regularly assist our attorneys with organizing and maintaining files, conducting legal research, and preparing documents.