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Covington’s breadth of practices and history of working with software clients on a global basis provides us with a deep understanding of the business and legal issues confronting companies in the software sector. We are able to integrate the various legislative and regulatory, transactional, intellectual property and litigation resources within the firm in order to serve as trusted advisors to our software clients.
Representative Matters
- Representation of a software manufacturer with worldwide operations through providing assistance in developing compliance materials.
- Advising a large software company regarding reexamination proceedings in the context of a district court litigation.
- Representation of software companies in EU and national legislation on intellectual property, technology standards, IPR enforcement, electronic commerce, data protection, and many other issues.
- Representation of a major software company in the successful mediation of multi-million dollar software errors and omissions insurance claims.
- Representation of major Japanese electronics and software company in defense of patent infringement claims at the ITC involving combination of software and hardware for graphical interfaces and systems for three dimensional pointing.
- Representation of the Business Software Alliance and software publishers in preparation of amicus briefs filed in appellate and Supreme Court cases involving seminal copyright issues, including the Napster, AOL and Grokster cases.
- Representation of Check Point Software Technologies in its acquisition of NFR Security and proposed acquisition of Sourcefire.
- Representation of Electronic Arts and other multi-national corporations in worldwide review of merger filing requirements and obtaining clearances in those jurisdictions where filing thresholds are met.
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