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One of the shortest and simplest legal agreements is the nondisclosure agreement, sometimes called “confidentiality agreement.” A good nondisclosure agreement can be one page in length...
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"Fair use" of copyrighted works is one of the least understood concepts in American jurisprudence. Users of others' works implicitly understand that there are certain uses that they can make of copyrighted works without violating the owner's or author's copyright...
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One of the most fought-over issues in technology development and licensing agreements concerns intellectual property ownership. Superficially, who owns the intellectual property should be easy to resolve. The developer or publisher of a proprietary computer software program virtually always owns the computer program (except for possible open source components)...
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In technology licensing the most difficult jumble of contractual issues generally involve the relationship between indemnification and limitation of liability, particularly the question of the patent indemnity. This is the "negative" lottery in technology contracts, a "loser pays all" provision if not drafted properly...
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I am delighted to launch Neff Law Firm, a Professional Law Corp., which in its first incarnation had a very strong 12-1/2 year run until the summer of 2004, and was known as Neff Law Group LLP. This rebirth takes place more than five years after I joined a top Century City-based Los Angeles law firm, Greenberg Glusker, as a partner and head of the Technology and Intellectual Property Practice Group. Just like I did in January of 1992, I am launching this firm while the US economy is in a recession...
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