Intellectual Property - Thames Valley
Band 2
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Tim Astley is a key contact.
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Intellectual Property
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About
Provided by Moorcrofts LLP
Whether you are a technology business, a business reliant on technology or that provides services to other businesses or organisations, Moorcroft LLP’s experienced team of lawyers are able to draw on the breadth and depth of knowledge and experience available.
This enables to provide pragmatic and creative legal solutions on a vast array of issues, including:
- Software licences and SaaS agreements
- Software and services distribution agreements
- Open source licensing
- Software development agreements
- Software transfer/assignment
- OEM and VAR agreements
- Turn-key agreements
- Lease and finance agreements
- IPR protection
- Software development, licensing, distribution and copyright
- Hardware development and sale agreements
- Website development, hosting and audits
- OEM and VAR agreements
- UK and European competition law
- Data protection and data security, including GDPR
- Online regulations compliance
- Licensing and intellectual property protection
- Hosting agreements (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS)
- Public sector technology tenders including GCloud
- Service level and cloud service agreements
- Security and Internet and email use policies
- US data import/export, including developments around Privacy Shield
- Multi-tier processor and cloud arrangements, including complex arrangements for data processing
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Work Highlights
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Moorcrofts supported Payara Services, an open source application server, in the drafting of agreements and licensing strategy.
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Tim Astley
Head of Department
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