With thousands of transactions and billions of dollars spent on technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) every year, buyers must protect...

The most important asset most tech companies possess and hold dear to their heart is their source code. Whether its artificial...

"Few tasks excite a defendant less... Engineers and management howl at the notion of providing strangers, and especially a fierce competitor, access to the crown jewels. Counsel struggles to understand even exactly what code exists and exactly how it can be made available for reasonable inspection. All sorts of questions are immediately posed... Put simply, source code production is disruptive, expensive, and fraught with monumental opportunities to screw up." Apple Inc. v.

The biggest IP story this week was the December 6 Supreme Court decision in Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple, a long fought battle over...

The pendulum against covered business methods and software continues to swing backward or forward depending on whom you ask. Patent...