Data Rights and Intellectual Property

Protecting your intellectual property and proprietary information rights is an important element of working under a government procurement, as either a contractor or subcontractor. Our lawyers help you take the steps necessary to fully protect these rights under contracts, subcontracts, SBIR Agreements, Other Transactions, and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements.

We routinely advise and counsel clients on strategies that maximize the scope of their reserved intellectual property rights when selling technology products and services to the U.S. government. In a recent transaction on behalf of a transportation enterprise software developer, we negotiated special licenses of highly sensitive, proprietary data structures and other works with a military intelligence agency.