Government Contracts Intellectual Property & Data Rights
Akin’s government contracts team represents businesses, universities and nonprofit organizations on a wide range of intellectual property (IP), technology transfer, commercial software and data rights matters.
Our highly skilled lawyers routinely guide government contractors seeking protections for their innovations in software, technical data and other emerging technologies. Whether the data was developed using government funds, private funds or a mix, our team assists clients partnering with the government or supplying the government with patented technologies.
We also help clients address the IP & data rights issues that arise in transactions, including those involving subcontracts, research and development contracts, funding agreements, grants, cooperative agreements and to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.
Our team provides advice on a broad array of data rights matters, including as related to:
- Background IP and foreground IP
- Commercial software licenses, including specially negotiated licensing rights
- Compliance programs
- Data rights litigation
- Data rights tables
- Deferred ordering
- End user agreements
- Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Department of Defense FAR Supplement (DFARS)
- Government purpose rights
- Marking requirements and identification procedures
- Restricted rights
- Segregation of development funding
- Software rights
- Solicitations to identify data rights
- Standard and nonstandard data rights clauses and other applicable clauses
- Technology transfer agreements
- Understanding and reporting for subject conventions.
