Technology Transfer and Licensing

Technology Transfer

We routinely negotiate and prepare technology transfer agreements and know-how licenses in a variety of areas, including the fields of computer software, electronics and biotechnology. We advise both academic and industry clients on technology transfer matters, ranging from the identification of additional uses for technology, filing patents on technology, developing transfer programs, and defending inventorship and ownership disputes.
 
Among our attorneys are individuals who have previously worked in the technology licensing office of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the technology transfer office of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and at a national laboratory conducting research and assisting in the transfer process. Our attorneys continue to prosecute patents and assist with technology transfer and out-licensing deals for a number of high-profile institutions and universities, including Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Brown University, MIT, Tufts University, California Institute of Technology, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Additionally, a number of our attorneys also work with laboratories, handling like transactions, including Draper Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. We also have significant experience representing companies and charitable foundations in technology transfer agreements with the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U. S. Army, and universities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Several of our attorneys have authored publications on various issues involved in the technology transfer process.

Licensing

Our multidisciplinary practice group of attorneys and technology consulting professionals have in-depth knowledge and expertise in handling licensing, procurement, outsourcing, sales, auctions, and technology transfer transactions that involve computers, software, networks, telecommunications equipment, and other intellectual property such as trademarks, patents and professional services. Our experience includes countless small and mid-sized licensing transactions and ranges up to the largest multinational transactions involving the most advanced technologies.

Among the strengths of the group is our attorneys' hybrid expertise in business, communications, technology law, and intellectual property, which allows them to provide exceptional business-focused legal advice in relation to these complicated transactions. The interdisciplinary nature of the group ensures that experts in intellectual property, technology, finance, corporate transactions, real estate, employment, and immigration are available to assist on any transaction.

The firm has participated in licensing and other intellectual property and technology-based transactions engaged in by a broad range of businesses, including computer hardware and software, financial services, telecommunications, entertainment, multimedia, publishing, professional services, healthcare, and e-commerce companies.