Information Technology — guides, checklists and articles
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- Taking It Apart: Reverse Engineering, Interoperability, and the Law of Compatible Products · Article — Taking a product apart to learn how it works is lawful in most circumstances and unlawful in several specific ones, and the difference turns on which body of…
- The Data in the Dirt: Precision Agriculture, Farm Machinery, and Who Owns What the Field Reports · Article — A modern combine harvester generates more data per hour than most industrial equipment, and almost none of the arrangements governing that data were designed…
- Telecommunications IP Checklist: Spectrum and Licence Conditions, Equipment and Firmware Terms, Interconnection Agreements, Standards Exposure, and Subscriber Data · Checklist — This checklist audits the intellectual property position of a carrier or network operator in the order the questions arise. It begins with the asset register,…
- Advising a Utility or Grid Technology Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Metering Data, Vendor Terms, Interconnection, and Critical Infrastructure Rules · Guide — A practitioner's guide to advising in the utility and grid technology sector, written for lawyers arriving from ordinary technology practice. It begins by…
- Software Continuity and Escrow Toolkit: Vendor Failure, Support Rights, and Exit · Toolkit — Software escrow is the most commonly purchased and least commonly useful continuity control in technology contracting, and the reason is that companies buy the…
- Software, Data, and Open Source Toolkit: Code, Licenses, and the Supply Chain · Toolkit — Every software product is assembled from code somebody else wrote under terms nobody read, sits on data whose ownership is unclear, and depends on a supply…
- Connected Vehicle IP and Data Checklist: Data Rights, Supplier Terms, Feature Licensing, Telematics Privacy, and Aftermarket Access · Checklist — This checklist builds a connected vehicle IP and data position in the order that makes the later steps possible. Phase one splits vehicle data into diagnostic,…
- Technology Agreement Checklist: License Scope, Service Levels, Data Rights, Indemnity, and Exit · Checklist — Technology agreements fail on eight provisions, and the license grant is not one of them. This checklist runs a subscription or licensing deal in fourteen…
- Data Licensing Checklist: Provenance, Rights to Grant, Scope, Derived Data, De-Identification, and Exit · Checklist — This checklist runs a data licence from provenance tracing to exit, in the order the terms should actually be settled. It opens with the source table that…
- Financial Technology and Payments IP Toolkit: Eligibility, Market Data, Models, and Interfaces · Toolkit — Financial technology sits at the intersection of the least favourable patent eligibility environment in the system and the most heavily licensed data in…
- Advising a Telecommunications or Network Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Spectrum, Equipment, Interconnection, and Subscriber Data · Guide — This guide is written for counsel taking responsibility for the intellectual property position of a carrier, network operator, or communications infrastructure…
- Logistics Technology IP Checklist: Shipment Data Rights, Platform and API Terms, Carrier and Shipper Agreements, Benchmarking Outputs, and Customs Interfaces · Checklist — This checklist audits the intellectual property position of a freight, logistics, or supply chain technology business in the order the questions arise. It…
- Data Collection and Scraping Risk Checklist: Sources, Terms, Access, and Output · Checklist — Sixteen phases for a data collection program, organized around the source register that replaces a single scraping policy. The early phases classify the…
- AI Procurement Checklist: Use Case Review, Data Rights, Output Terms, Indemnity, Evaluation, and Monitoring · Checklist — This checklist procures a model service and then builds the controls that actually reduce the risk, which are not in the agreement. It opens by identifying the…
- Keeping the Lights On: Utilities, Grid Technology, and the Data a Meter Sends Home · Article — A smart meter reports household electricity use at fifteen-minute intervals, and that stream reveals when people wake, when they leave, what appliances they…
- AI Procurement and Governance Toolkit: Vendors, Models, Data, and Output · Toolkit — Buying artificial intelligence looks like buying software and is not, because the contract has to allocate rights in data going in and output coming out, and…
- Advising an Automotive or Mobility Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Vehicle Data, Supplier IP, Software Features, and the Aftermarket · Guide — This guide builds the legal architecture an automotive or mobility business actually needs, in the order the decisions arise rather than the order a textbook…
- Negotiating a Technology Agreement: A Practitioner's Guide to Scope, Service Levels, Data Rights, and IP Ownership · Guide — This guide runs a technology agreement from intake through signature, renewal, and exit, from the customer's chair with the vendor's constraints in view. It…
- Logistics and Supply Chain Technology IP Toolkit: Shipment Data, Platforms, and Network Rights · Toolkit — A shipment generates data about two parties who are not the logistics provider, which is the structural fact underneath every intellectual property question in…
- Licensing Data as a Commercial Asset: A Practitioner's Guide to Rights, Scope, Derived Data, and Compliance Flow-Down · Guide — This guide drafts and negotiates a data licence in the order the terms should be settled, starting with the two that decide the deal - provenance and derived…
- The Pipes and the Spectrum: Telecommunications Infrastructure, Network Equipment, and What a Carrier Actually Owns · Article — A telecommunications business is an unusual intellectual property client because the thing it sells is not a thing it owns. Spectrum is licensed from the…
- Advising a Logistics or Supply Chain Technology Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Shipment Data, Platform Terms, Network Effects, and Customer Rights · Guide — This guide is for counsel responsible for the intellectual property position of a freight, logistics, or supply chain technology business, and it is organised…
- Running or Defending a Data Scraping Program: A Practitioner's Guide to Terms, the CFAA, and Contract Claims · Guide — An operational guide for both chairs in a scraping dispute, built around a source-by-source analysis rather than a single program policy - because four sources…
- Negotiating an AI Vendor Agreement: A Practitioner's Guide to Training Rights, Output Ownership, Indemnities, and Model Governance · Guide — This guide negotiates a model agreement and then does the work that actually reduces the risk, which is not the negotiation. It starts by identifying the…
- The Car That Reports Back: Vehicle Data, Connected Features, and Who Owns What the Car Knows · Article — A modern vehicle generates, stores, and transmits more data than most enterprise systems, and almost none of the law that governs it was written with vehicles…
- What You Are Actually Buying: SaaS Agreements, Service Levels, and the IP Underneath · Article — A software-as-a-service agreement is not a software license, and treating it as one produces the recurring disappointments of technology procurement. This…
- Selling Something You Cannot Own: Data Licensing, Database Rights, and the Contracts That Substitute for Property · Article — Data is the asset most often licensed and least often owned, and the gap between commercial expectation and legal reality is where data deals go wrong. This…
- Robotics and Autonomy IP Checklist: Component and Stack Mapping, Training Data Provenance, Safety Documentation, Integrator Terms, and Field Data Rights · Checklist — This checklist audits the intellectual property position of a robotics or autonomous systems business in the order the questions arise. It begins with the…
- Where the Box Went: Logistics, Freight Technology, and the Data That Moves With the Goods · Article — Freight is an information business that happens to move objects. The margin in logistics comes from knowing where capacity is, what it costs, and when…
- Who Owns the Data? Scraping, Databases, and the Limits of Ownership · Article — Clients arrive with a firm conviction that they own their data, and the law's answer is that almost nobody owns data as such. This article explains what…
- Buying a Model: AI Vendor Contracts, Training Rights, Output Ownership, and the Indemnity That Is Not There · Article — Buying access to a model is not buying software and the standard technology agreement does not fit it. This article works the five terms that actually matter -…
- Running an Open Source Compliance Program: A Practitioner's Guide to Inventory, Policy, Review, and Remediation · Guide — This guide is the operational half of the Rightsy article on open source licensing, and it assumes you know why license conditions are enforceable as copyright…
- Technology Contracts Toolkit: SaaS, Licensing, Service Levels, and Exit · Toolkit — Technology agreements fail on eight provisions and the license grant is not one of them. This toolkit runs a deal from intake through renewal and exit, and…
- Telecommunications and Network Infrastructure IP Toolkit: Spectrum, Equipment, Standards, and Subscriber Data · Toolkit — A carrier owns almost nothing that makes its network work. The spectrum is licensed from the state, the equipment is licensed from vendors, the protocols are…
- Financial Technology IP Checklist: Eligibility Screening, Market Data Terms, Model and Algorithm Governance, Open Banking Interfaces, and Customer Data Rights · Checklist — This checklist audits a financial technology business in the order the exposure actually sits, which is not the order the client expects. It begins with the…
- Building a Robotics or Autonomous Systems Programme: A Practitioner's Guide to Sensor Data, Models, Safety Files, and Integration · Guide — This guide is written for the person responsible for the intellectual property position of a robotics or autonomous systems business, and it proceeds in the…
- Utilities and Grid Technology IP Toolkit: Metering Data, Vendors, Standards, and Critical Infrastructure · Toolkit — A meter reporting every fifteen minutes produces a record of how a household lives, and the rules governing it come from a state utility commission rather than…
- Software Copyright Checklist: Registration, Deposit, Evidence, and Comparison · Checklist — Seventeen phases covering software copyright from the registration program a company should run before any dispute exists to the settlement structures these…
- Copyleft and Consequences: Open Source Licensing and the Software Supply Chain · Article — Almost every modern software product is assembled rather than written, and the assembly is governed by licenses most engineering teams have never read. This…
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems IP Toolkit: Stacks, Sensor Data, Safety Files, and Integration · Toolkit — A robot is four assets pretending to be one: hardware, a software stack, a corpus of sensor and field data, and a safety file that is the actual barrier to…
- Interoperability and Reverse Engineering Checklist: Clean Room, Documentation, Terms, and Circumvention · Checklist — A reverse engineering project is defensible or indefensible on decisions made in its first week, and none of them is doctrinal. This checklist runs the work in…
- Advising a Fintech or Payments Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Patentability, Market Data Licences, Model Governance, and Vendor Terms · Guide — This guide takes a practitioner through a financial technology engagement in the order the work actually has to happen, which is not the order the client…
- Agricultural Technology IP Checklist: Farm Data Ownership, Equipment and Repair Access, Agronomic Model Terms, Grower and Cooperative Agreements, and Trial Data Provenance · Checklist — This checklist audits an agricultural technology position in the order the exposure sits, and it opens by setting aside the question the client will raise.…
- The Machine That Decides: Robotics, Autonomy, and the Rights in a System That Acts · Article — A robot is not one invention but a stack, and the legal questions differ at every layer of it. The mechanical platform is patentable in the ordinary way; the…
- Data Licensing and Rights Toolkit: Provenance, Scope, Derived Data, and Compliance · Toolkit — Data is the asset most often licensed and least often owned, and the gap between commercial expectation and legal reality is where data deals go wrong. This…
- Proving or Defending a Software Copyright Claim: A Practitioner's Guide to Filtration, Access, and Expert Analysis · Guide — A litigation guide for software copyright disputes on either side, ordered the way these cases are actually won rather than the way they are pleaded. It starts…
- Automotive, Mobility, and Connected Vehicle IP Toolkit: Data, Suppliers, Software, and Parts · Toolkit — A modern vehicle is a computer that generates data continuously, assembled from components supplied by dozens of tier one and tier two vendors, sold to an…
- Running a Reverse Engineering or Interoperability Program: A Practitioner's Guide to Clean Rooms, Contracts, and Section 1201 · Guide — This guide runs a reverse engineering or interoperability project from the decision to start through release and the litigation that may follow. It begins with…
- Money Is Software Now: Payments, Trading Systems, and the Intellectual Property Inside Financial Technology · Article — Financial technology occupies the least hospitable corner of the patent system and one of the most contested corners of data licensing, which is an unusual…
- Advising an Agricultural Technology Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Farm Data Rights, Equipment Interfaces, Agronomic Models, and Grower Agreements · Guide — This guide takes a practitioner through an agricultural technology engagement in the order the work has to happen, and it begins by setting aside the question…
- Agricultural Technology IP Toolkit: Farm Data, Machinery, Agronomic Models, and Grower Terms · Toolkit — A modern combine harvester generates more data per hectare than most software products generate per customer, and the question of who owns it has never been…
- Copyright in Code: Structure, Sequence, and Organization After Google v. Oracle · Article — Software has never fit comfortably inside copyright, and the Supreme Court's decision in Google v. Oracle resolved less than most people believe. This article…
- Utility and Grid Technology Checklist: Metering and Usage Data Rights, Vendor and Firmware Terms, Interconnection and Standards Exposure, Critical Infrastructure Obligations, and Customer Data Handling · Checklist — A ten-phase working checklist for utility and grid technology matters, usable by a utility, a technology vendor, or a distributed energy business. Phases one…