With technology and intellectual property rights at the center of many commercial transactions and the internet playing a critical role driving innovation and business growth, Pierce Atwood IP attorneys assist clients with a broad spectrum of transactions involving intellectual property assets, the internet, and commercialization and procurement of technologies and services. Our expertise includes patent, trademark and copyright licenses, software licenses, joint development agreements, sponsored research, research collaboration and material transfer agreements, online marketing and distribution agreements, and IT and business process outsourcing agreements. Most importantly, whether conducting IP due diligence or negotiating a license, Pierce Atwood helps clients get deals done.
Representative Experience
We helped Massachusetts and California based Advanced Cell Technology grow from an angel-backed start-up through several venture rounds and ultimately to a publicly traded platform. Advanced Cell Technology is one of the world’s leading companies commercializing stem cell cloning technologies. We helped Advanced Cell with multiple rounds of private and ultimately public capital raising, numerous joint ventures, technology transfer arrangements, licensing transactions, and management of their intellectual property assets.
We served as lead counsel for a top-ten North American bank in connection with acquisitions of mission critical information systems involving the exchange of highly regulated personal information.
We developed a licensing program and supporting agreements for a holder of health care claims data in connection with out-licensing de-identified data sets to universities and organizations for research purposes.
We work closely with the clothing company of a nationally known pop star to help protect and enforce the company’s trademark rights and negotiate various licensing and other business contracts.