Robinson Bradshaw represents software developers licensing their products to others as well as companies licensing software from individual developers and companies for internal use or for inclusion in distributed products. As a result of years of experience across a wide variety of types of software licensing transactions, our firm is keenly aware of the issues that arise in software licensing transactions and regularly counsel our clients around these obstacles to successful outcomes.
Each software licensing transaction presents unique challenges. Working with a wide range of clients, from large software and hardware companies to start-up software developers, enables us to provide customized solutions that bring to bear recent legal decisions, technological developments, and current market terms.
Attorneys in this area keep abreast of current issues in software development and licensing. Open source software is one such area where recent legal decisions have impacted the nature of software licensing. Our attorneys have published articles alerting clients to these recent developments and regularly represent both licensees and licensors in transactions that involve the licensing of software that may include open source software code.