Software and Mobile Applications

Bierce & Kenerson has many years of experience in advising major industrial, commercial and financial enterprises in the acquisition, integration, deployment and maintenance of critical software including ERP (enterprise resource planning), SCM (supply chain management) and Internet technologies. On the sell-side, we have advised clients in software startups in developing, licensing, commercializing and selling their software.

Software transactional support may include:

• Application development and maintenance
• Licensing: proprietary, free, open source
• Digital rights management: user, entity, supply chain; audit and operations
• Source code management and escrow
• Business Software Alliance audits inspired by “tattletale” “whistlerblowers”
• Policies on protecting original works
• Self assessment audits on compliance with licensing obligations, copyright and copyleft
• Internet privacy terms
• Internet terms of use
• Internet terms and conditions of service/sale
• Distribution of licenses from iStore and others
• Online advertising agency services