Information Technology

Our Information Technology practice has developed from years of experience representing computer software companies, firms providing software tools and applications, web site developers and other Internet services companies. We also represent companies that buy software systems or develop their own systems, as well as counsel clients planning to outsource all or part of their information technology functions.

We counsel clients in the following areas:

• Software licenses and development contracts
• World Wide Web site development and hosting agreements
• Information technology function outsourcing
• U.S. and international software distribution agreements
• Copyright, patent, and trade secret protection of technology, including issues arising under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
• Electronic network (Internet and intranet) agreements
• Electronic signatures, electronic records retention, and related commercial transactions, including the effects of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-Sign)
• Electronic privacy matters, including advising clients regardingOnline privacy policies
• Development of policies for electronic communications and computer use
• Software licenses or other intellectual property rights granted by or to financially troubled parties
• Internet domain name disputes
• Wireless/broadcast facility siting
• Cable television regulatory issues
• Federal and state telecommunications policy
• Technology escrow agreements (whether negotiating custom agreements or making arrangements using the major technology escrow services)

For more information about our Information Technology Practice, please contact:
William J. Lamping 
Alan M. Kanter 

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