GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Leon Schwartz presented a webinar with Revenera on June 3, 2020. The webinar, titled “Focus on Open Source Compliance and Security During Legal Transactions” discussed navigating open source risk in the context of transactions.
Read more »GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Tony Decicco, Shareholder, presented a Webinar with Black Duck on June 4, 2020. The webinar, titled “Managing Tech Due Diligence From a Social Distance”, covered: • Tips for managing software due diligence and audits in the current environment • Setting realistic expectations and gaining insight from more limited information • Leveraging tech due diligence providers and tech-focused legal counsel to minimize risk
Read more »GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Leon Schwartz authored a blog post which was published on Flexera’s Software Composition Analysis blog on May 14, 2020. The blog post titled: “Open Source Software Licensing: Not everything is as it seems” showcases that open source licensing is not always straight-forward and highlights the need for diligent review. Read more here: https://www.flexerasoftware.com/blog/software-composition-analysis/2020/05/open-source-software-licensing-not-everything-is-as-it-seems/
Read more »Last month, the Supreme Court, in its decision Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Grp., Inc., 140 S. Ct. 1492 (2020) clarified that a finding of willfulness is not a pre-requisite for consideration of a profits award under 15 U. S. C. §1117(a) of the Lanham Act. Essentially, what this means is that it is no longer required for a plaintiff to prove than an infringer willfully infringed the plaintiff’s trademark(s) in order to ask for the infringer to have to disgorge their profits from the infringement. However, the court took care to make sure that a defendant’s state of mind […]
Read more »GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Anthony Decicco co-authored a blog post with Synopsis on May 5, 2020. The blog post titled: “Navigating M&A Tech Due Diligence From a Safe Distance” covers practical tips for completing tech due diligence and focusing on open source software when teams can’t meet in person. Read more here: https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/tech-due-diligence-social-distance/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=eloqua
Read more »GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Tony Decicco and Leon Schwartz presented a webinar on May 4, 2020 as part of OpenChain’s biweekly Webinar Series. The webinar provided a brief overview of open source-related topics in the context of mergers, acquisitions, financings, investments, IPOs, divestitures, loans, customer license agreements, rep and warranty insurance and other transactions. The webinar covered: • Types of open source risk • Open source due diligence as part of transactions • Open source-related terms in agreements • Strategic use of open source in transactions
Read more »GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates’ Leon Schwartz presented a webinar with Strafford on April 1, 2020. The webinar, titled “Managing IP While Using Open Source: Copyright and Patent Licensing” covered: • Risks and benefits of open source • Balancing open source and proprietary code • Managing and protecting IP in software that uses open source • Open source license compatibility issues • Open source license patent issues • Litigation issues involving patents and open source • Practical implications
Read more »GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates’ Leon Schwartz presented a webinar with FOSSID on March 26, 2020. The webinar, titled “Open Source Software and Code Snippets” covered the benefits and inherent risks of using open source software and the best practices for identifying and mitigating those risks.
Read more »GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Leon Schwartz presented a webinar with Flexera Software on March 11, 2020. The webinar reflected on open source trends in 2019 and what 2020 may bring to the industry, including the increasing importance of the OpenChain specification.
Read more »The OpenChain Project has initiated a series of interviews with people involved with the OpenChain Project. GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates’ Leon Schwartz was recently selected to participate in an interview. Leon shared his history and experience with open source as both a software developer and a lawyer. Leon went on to describe the unique perspective GTC brings to open source due diligence and strategy in all types of transactions. Please see the full interview here: https://www.openchainproject.org/openchain-interview-11
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