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Oklahoma Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section Seminar & Midyear Meeting, June 2016
Oklahoma Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section Seminar & Midyear Meeting, June 2016
Finance Monthly – Spotlight Feature – Software Disputes, Robert Scott, July 2016 Lessons Learned in Over 500 Software License Disputes Regardless of whether the publisher is Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, IBM or any of their trade groups including the BSA | The Software Alliance, Scott & Scott, LLP sees common issues – here are the most…
The ITAM Review, May 17, 2016 We’re pleased to announce the details of some of our confirmed conference speakers at our upcoming US conference in Florida on 19th & 20th September and UK conference in London on 4th & 5th October. Here we put 3 of our confirmed speakers under the spotlight. More speaker details can be…
Ernesto, Torrent Freak, 5/28/16 The Business Software Alliance, a trade group representing Adobe, Apple and Microsoft, is known to offer cash payments to people who help them find companies that run unlicensed software. Today we speak with an attorney who has represented more than 250 defendants in these cases, which are regularly triggered by disgruntled employees.
Robert J. Scott, TechCrunch, 5/11/16 There is a highly divisive and costly practice that software companies have inflicted on their customers for nearly a decade. This practice brings with it significant emotional duress, time investment and financial penalties — all of which divert meaningful resources from revenue-driving activities. And to add insult to injury, this…
Scott & Scott, LLP voted “Technology Law Firm of the Year – USA” by Finance Monthly.
Michael O’Dwyer, ipswitch, 4/11/16 Human error is responsible for more than half of all security breaches as of last year, making employees the biggest cyber threat of all. Shadow IT, on the other hand, is the deliberate installation of software that is not authorized by IT.
Julie Bort, Business Insider, 4/9/16 Software-licensing rules aren’t always clear, and some Microsoft partners say the company is taking advantage of that.
Katherine Noyes, ComputerWorld, 10/13/15 Oracle’s aggressive licensing practices have gained it considerable notoriety over the years, and on Tuesday, a Texas law firm specializing in technology issued a warning urging enterprises to beware.
Serdar Yegulalp, InfoWorld, 1/19/16 The move to per-core licensing could increase the costs of Windows Server substantially and impact Software Assurance customers as well.