The decisions you make in the beginning, such as choosing an ownership structure, will impact your business throughout its life cycle. Getting the right start is critical.
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LAN Party Lawyers: All-In on Loot Boxes
In this inaugural episode of LAN Party Lawyers, Carlton Fields attorneys Steve Blickensderfer and Nick Brown discuss the increasingly popular phenomenon of including loot boxes in digital games. They also examine the growing concerns about loot boxes by regulators around the world and debate whether …
U.S. Immigration Policy and Procedural Changes Impacting Foreign Students (Webinar)
This presentation is a three-part series on the procedural and policy changes issued by the various U.S. agencies governing legal immigration, and the impact of these changes on foreign students in the U.S. with student, scholar or trainee visas such as F, M or J, as well as their spouses and …
Custom Software Development: Practical Strategies to Get What You Pay For (Webinar)
A company’s custom software is an increasingly important part of growing profitability, shrinking expenses, and reaching new markets. It is critical to corporate success or failure. Software deals and licensing models are evolving as quickly as the technology, becoming more complicated and costly. …
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Trademark and Service Mark License Agreement
The Trademark and Service Mark License Agreement is made between the owner of a trademark or service mark and a company who will use the mark, in exchange for payment of royalties. The agreement sets forth, among other things, ownership of the mark, term of the license, indemnification for the mark …
Employee Offer Letter
The employee offer letter sets out certain details and conditions of employment with the company. It states the date employment will begin, compensation, job responsibilities and duties, and conditions, including “at will” employment terminable at any time, and the condition that the employee must …
Employee Invention Assignment Agreement (California)
The Employee Invention Assignment Agreement is an agreement between the company and employee that requires the employee to disclose any inventions to the company, to legally transfer ownership in such inventions to the Company, and to assist the company in obtaining protection on any such …