1May
How to Survive a Nasty Software Vendor Audit
Kristin Burnham, CIO.com, 04/30/2018 When software vendor auditors push too far, enterprise technology leaders must be prepared to push back. In an extreme case, the food company Mars (best known for Snickers and M&M’s candies)...
12Apr
Post-Settlement Obligations in Software Settlements
A settlement agreement to resolve software copyright infringement claims is not the final word in obtaining a release of liability. There are a number of obligations triggered by the settlement agreement that cannot be ignored...
26Dec
How to Defend a Software Audit
Shrinking IT budgets and fierce competition among software publishers have created explosive growth in the incidence and frequency of software audits – a mechanism by which software publishers investigate their customers to determine if they...
26Dec
Litigating Software Audit Disputes
The ITAM Review US Conference 2017 Software audits have become routine as publishers have proven that compliance claims get customers’ attention more than sales proposals. Most software license disputes are settled out of court, but...
15Aug
Is Flexera’s Initiative with Microsoft a Silver Bullet for Software Audits?
Microsoft and Flexera recently announced a joint initiative that the two companies have touted as a way to transform “the software supply chain” through the use of a standard set of software asset management (SAM)...
20Jul
Boutique Law Firm Relocates to Granite Place
Boutique intellectual property and technology law firm, Scott & Scott, LLP, will move to new space in Granite Place, Southlake’s brand-new, full-service building this summer.
