Software

Your cutting-edge coding will change the world. Focus on your market disruption while we handle your full range of legal needs, from IP and licensing to corporate and privacy. Work with attorneys whose backgrounds and experience can position you for greater success.

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Summary

Procopio’s software industry attorneys understand the unique challenges of businesses engaged in software and software-enabled technologies. We provide you a multi-disciplinary team of experienced attorneys who navigate all areas of law, including intellectual property prosecution and protection, licensing, private and public corporate finance and securities-related transactions, labor and employment challenges, and transactions including mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Our software team attorneys take the time to learn your business and serve as your virtual legal department or a seamless extension of your in-house team to allow your company to stay Lean.

Strategic intellectual property development
Entity formation and planning
Capital recruitment and growth
Securities and corporate finance law
Corporate governance
Patent prosecution and counseling
Trademarks and copyrights
Trade secrets
Intellectual property litigation
Licensing, including OSS (open source software)
Employment contracts, arbitration and commission agreements
Executive compensation
Pre-litigation resolution
Labor and Employment litigation
Mergers and acquisitions
Strategic joint ventures

Developed intellectual property strategy and portfolio for pioneering e-commerce software technology company and advised on intellectual property matters in subsequent $394M acquisition by public web analytics company and additional $1.8B acquisition of the web analytics company by a multinational computer software company.
Represented Mobile IoT software company in multiple financings, and in developing its intellectual property strategy and portfolio and represented the company on corporate and intellectual property matters in connection with merger into a public company.
Represented a SaaS (BI) company in its Series A, Series B and Series C Preferred Stock financings, and in an all cash acquisition of the company.
Lead trial counsel in a software copyright infringement and ownership dispute. Jury trial resulted in a complete victory.
Developed intellectual property strategy and portfolio for privately-held web analytics software technology company and advised on intellectual property matters in subsequent $12.5M acquisition by public medical device company.
Provided counsel on commercialization strategy and drafted and negotiated all license, maintenance and custom programming agreements for a software publisher.
Developed intellectual property strategy and portfolio for privately-held medical imaging software technology company and advised on intellectual property matters in subsequent acquisition by public Internet networking company.
Assisted start-up medical software company with private securities offering to raise seed capital for research, development and operations and subsequently negotiated the sale of controlling interest to a publicly operated health care group.
Represented a leading provider of software solutions and professional services to the food services industry in connection with a merger into a foreign public company.
Developed intellectual property strategy for privately-held software security technology company and advised on intellectual property matters in subsequent $30M acquisition by public Internet networking company.
Represented shareholders of a company in the business of developing, licensing, maintaining and supporting print management software in connection with stock sale.
Supported a SaaS company in a stock for stock transaction.
Represented electronic health records software company in acquisition by a private equity firm.
Represented a medical software company in raising venture capital.
Assisted a medical software company in negotiating the departure of disgruntled founder and ex-officers.
Represented a target company engaged in the business of installing, implementing, customizing and marketing proprietary computer software in connection with its sale of all of its assets to a public company.
Negotiation and preparation of Software License Agreement between wireless embedded software technology company and publicly-traded multinational software technology corporation.
Advised a software company concerning protection of its intellectual property upon the departure of a key employee.
Negotiation and preparation of Software License Agreement for legislative software technology company for use with legislative branches and regulatory agencies of government.
Supported a SaaS company in its Series A and Series B Preferred Stock financing, the filing of a Permit Application with the California Department of Corporations and the reincorporation into Delaware related thereto.
Represented private smart battery software company in merger with NASDAQ-listed corporation.
Supported software company in its proposed $40M offering of common stock, preferred stock, warrants and/or units under a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3.
Represented Canadian software company in its acquisition of intellectual property assets, including software, copyrights and international trademarks, from California corporation and New Zealand corporation.
Supported private biomechanical software modeling company in merger with NYSE-listed corporation.
Represented large privately held foreign corporation in connection with its $30M acquisition of US-based software company.
Represented SaaS company in its conversion from an LLC to a C corporation, and the simultaneous reorganization and Series A Preferred Stock financing.