Software & SaaS
Unparalleled experience advising buyers, developers and providers of software products and SaaS services
Buffeted by the rolling waves of tech innovation, it’s easy to forget that IP rights in computer software underpin a huge amount of the global tech economy.
On the sell-side, we have decades of experience advising software and tech, cloud, data centre and telecoms services provider clients across the full range of software legal issues: direct customer contracts, distribution arrangements, IP, competition law and regulatory issues. On the buy-side, from open-source to low-code/no-code, we advise clients on the range of software and services procurement, contractual, regulatory and compliance issues.
What We Do
- On premise and SaaS software licensing
- Distribution and partner channel agreements
- Professional services & implementation contracts
- Open-source compliance projects
- Strategic software acquisitions and disposals
Our Experience
Here are some examples of our Software & SaaS work:
Insight
We publish for our clients and contacts blogs, vlogs and white papers, and hold occasional events and webinars about developments in Tech Law.
Our insight is widely recognised in the market. Who’s Who Legal have named us one of their eight Tech Law though leaders each year since 2017. Click through to our insights page or an article below.
SaaS Insights – don’t get gaslit by your contract
Are you being gaslit by your SaaS contract? Chris Kemp gives advice on how to spot the signs in the …
Does my AI own the IP that it creates? If not, who? A summary of the position in the UK and US
Interesting IP law questions arise when we view AIs as creators in their own right rather than mere software tools. …
SMCR Enforcement Actions
What are ‘reasonable steps’ in the context of the SMCR? Tom Hine explains using two recent cases.