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From Cloud to Compliance: Legal Essentials for Building and Operating AI-Ready Data Centers

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Driven by the demand for AI-ready cloud infrastructure, the market cap for global data center construction, currently valued at more than $250 billion, is set to double in less than ten years, reaching half a trillion dollars...more

Erise IP

Pitfalls of Co-Branding: How to Avoid Diluting Your Trademarks in Agreements

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Co-branding has helped mega worldwide brands increase their sales and their reach. BMW and Louis Vuitton partnered their luxury brands with the automaker creating an i8 sports car with space for a four-piece set of luggage...more

Smith Anderson

Biotech Licensing Caselaw Update - 2024 Year in (Brief) Review

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Last year was a surprisingly big one for legal decisions impacting the biotechnology transactions and licensing space. Given that most biotech deals are subject to confidential alternative dispute resolution, it is unusual...more

Venable LLP

The Right of Publicity - December 2024

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Want to learn more about drafting, negotiating, and understanding intellectual property and technology contracts and have 10 minutes to spare? Grab your morning coffee or afternoon tea and dig into our Tech Contract Quick...more

Goodwin

Moving Away From Open Source: Trends in Source-Available Licensing

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Offering your software product under an open-source software (OSS) license has its advantages. By making the source code of your product available for redistribution and modification, and in many instances at no cost, you may...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Keeping Options Open When Going Exclusive

When a contracting party decides that the counterparty is worth an exclusive commitment, such a decision often rests on some minimum expectations and basic assumptions. But, in light of Murphy’s law, it may be worthwhile to...more

Bracewell LLP

All’s Well That Ends Well? NSTA Launch Investigation Into Oil Well Decommissioning Delays

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On 15 July 2024, 10 days into the UK Labour Government, the North Sea Transition Authority (“NSTA”, formerly known as the Oil and Gas Authority) announced that its Directorate of Regulation is opening an investigation into...more

BakerHostetler

5 Things to Address in Advertising Platform Agreements

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A while back, I wrote an article titled “3 Things to Address in Digital Media Agreements,” which focused on issues related to the purchase or sale of ad space on different media channels (e.g., websites and mobile...more

Venable LLP

Intellectual Property Licensing: Overview and Negotiation Points - July 2023

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Want to learn more about drafting, negotiating, and understanding intellectual property and technology contracts and have 10 minutes to spare? Grab your morning coffee or afternoon tea and dig into our Tech Contract Quick...more

Lowndes

If It Walks Like a Lease, Talks Like a Lease: Leases vs. Licenses

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There is a common misperception among landlords that licenses are more appropriate for smaller space even though the occupant is being granted exclusive use for a set period of time. As a result, you will often see documents...more

Pillsbury - SeeSalt Blog

Contractual Delivery Terms Control Application of Alabama’s Wholesale Oil License Fee

The Alabama Tax Tribunal held the taxpayers’ wholesale sales of fuel that entered and exited the state via the Colonial Pipeline were subject to the state’s wholesale oil license fee.  The sales in question were made to...more

Gray Reed

When a Tornado Damages Your Self-Storage Unit, are Your Rights Blown Away?

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This fall’s Dallas tornado was especially vexing to Winn Blohn who stored many personal belongings in Sasha Stach’s Stach-a-Lot Self-Storage unit. Sasha denied access to all the units for weeks. ...more

Morgan Lewis

Contract Corner: Drafting Sublicense Provisions in Intellectual Property Licenses

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In this Contract Corner, we are highlighting considerations for drafting sublicense provisions in the context of an Intellectual Property License. ..Definition of Sublicense. A sublicense in the context of an IP license is...more

JAMS

Arbitration Questions To Consider In Patent License Disputes

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Let’s say two entities entered into a patent license agreement years ago. Everything has been going wonderfully: The patentee has been receiving royalties, and the licensee has been selling its product without fear of an...more

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