Kristie Prinz to Speak at Practicing Law Institute Program

The Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz of The Prinz Law Office will be speaking at an upcoming one-day Practicing Law Institute Program to be held on October 9, 2024 at the PLI headquarters in San Francisco, California. Kristie will be speaking on “Drafting Privacy Policies for Devices with No User Interface –…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog Attorney Kristie Prinz to Present Webinar on “Best Practices for Negotiating SaaS Contracts & Managing SaaS Customer Relationships”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog Attorney Kristie Prinz will be presenting a webinar on October 8, 2019 at 10 a.m. PST on “Best Practices for Negotiating SaaS Contracts & Managing SaaS Customer Relationships.”  The program will address the following topics: What makes an effective customer contract? What are the essential terms in a well-drafted…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz to Speak on “Best Practices for Drafting Master Service Agreements & Managing the Service Relationship”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz will present a webinar on “Best Practices for Drafting Master Service Agreements & Managing the Service Relationship” on Friday, March 8, 2019 at 10 a.m. PST 1 p.m. EST.  The Prinz Law Office will sponsor the event, which is intended for lawyers as well as businesspeople.  To…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz to Speak on “Best Practices for Drafting SaaS Contracts & Managing SaaS Customer Relationships”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz will be presenting a webinar on “Best Practices for Drafting SaaS Contracts & Managing SaaS Customer Relationships” on February 19, 2019 at 10 a.m.PST 1 p.m. EST.  The Prinz Law Office will be sponsoring the event, which will be intended for lawyers as well as businesspeople.  To…

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New Expansion of CFIUS Powers Concerns Silicon Valley Dealmakers

The recent expansion of powers of the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (also known as “CFIUS”) by the passage of The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”) has many Silicon Valley dealmakers concerned about the challenges CFIUS may pose going forward for business transactions in the technology industry.  As…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz to Speak on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements” for Clear Law Institute

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz will present a webinar on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests” for Virginia-based Clear Law Institute on February 8, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST.  The program will be sponsored by Virginia-based Clear Law Institute, which is making available a…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog Sponsor Announces New “Subscription Model” Option for Legal Clients

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog Sponsor, The Prinz Law Office, has announced today the launch of a new option for clients: the “subscription model” billing model.  The firm will initially be offering daily and half-daily subscription models.  The model is anticipated to potentially be a good fit with companies having ongoing legal review or…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz to Present Webinar on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog Author Kristie Prinz will be presenting a webinar on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests” for Clear Law Institute on 10/26/18 at 10 a.m. PST.  Clear Law Institute is providing a registration discount for attendees who register with the discount code: KP119433.  To…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz to Speak on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog Author Kristie Prinz will present a webinar on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests” on June 11, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. The program will be sponsored by Virginia-based Clear Law Institute.  To register for the event, sign up at the Clear Law Institute…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz to Speak on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz will be featured as a speaker on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests” for a webinar hosted by Arlington, Virginia-based Clear Law Institute on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 from 10-11:15 a.m.  PST.  The firm has published a press release on the…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz to Present Webinar on “Drafting Software Hosting Agreements: Service Availability, Performance, Data Security, and Other Key Provisions”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz will be featured as a speaker for the webinar “Drafting Software Hosting Agreements: Service Availability, Performance, Data Security, Other Key Provisions” for the Atlanta, Georgia-based Strafford on January 23, 2018.  The firm has published a press release on the event, which is attached here.  To register for…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz to Speak on “Negotiating Software As a Service Contracts”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog’s Kristie Prinz will be presenting a webinar on “Negotiating Software As a Service Contracts” for Clear Law Institute on Wednesday, January 17th from 10-11:15 a.m.  PST.  The Prinz Law Office has published a press release on the event, which is attached here.  To register, please sign up at the…

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Software Lawyer Kristie Prinz to be featured speaker for “Negotiating Software as a Service Contracts” Webinar Hosted by Clear Law Institute

Silicon Valley Software Lawyer Kristie Prinz will be featured as a speaker for the webinar “Negotiating Software as a Service Contracts” for the Arlington, Virginia-based Clear Law Institute on Tuesday, September 12th from 12-1:15 p.m.  PST. Clear Law Institute is making available a special promotional discount of 35% off to attendees who sign up via…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog Author Kristie Prinz to Present Webinar on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests”

Silicon Valley IP licensing Law Blog Author Kristie Prinz will be co-presenting a webinar on “Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests”  with Kelley Miller of Reed Smith on August 8, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. PST/1:00 p.m. EDT. To register for this webinar, please sign up at:  https://www.straffordpub.com/products/negotiating-saas-agreements-drafting-key-contract-provisions-protecting-customer-and-vendor-interests-2017-08-08.

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Controversial Ninth Circuit Ruling May Limit the Availability of the DMCA Safe Harbor for Websites Relying on Moderators

A controversial ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was issued last week, which has the potential to discourage websites from relying on moderators for user-generated content going forward. In the case of Mavrix Photographs LLC v. LiveJournal, Inc., No. 14-56596 (9th Cir. filed April 7, 2017), the Court ruled that agency law applied…

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Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog Author Kristie Prinz to Speak at Upcoming Webinar on “Negotiating Software as a Service Contracts”

Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog author Kristie Prinz has been invited to present a webinar on “Negotiating Software as a Service Contracts” for Clear Law Institute on May 6, 2016 at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST.  For more information on the event or to register, please visit the Clear Law Institute website at http://clearlawinstitute.com/. 

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Pitfalls in Negotiating and Drafting Exclusive Licensing Deals: Lessons from Macy’s Dispute with JcPenney’s Over its Martha Stewart Product Line

When a new client contacts me for assistance in negotiating a licensing deal, the client almost always informs me that the deal is going to be an exclusive licensing arrangement.  However, when I engage the client further to tell me more about the proposed exclusivity deal, in most cases the proposed terms on the table…

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Practical Tips on Choosing your Start-Up’s Name

Given my Silicon Valley location, I often am consulted by entrepreneurs and start-ups who have just started a business and are seeking advice on how to protect their trademarks.  However, more often than not, I quickly determine that the name that the entrepreneur or start-up has selected is a poor mark and my advice ends…

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Challenges of Negotiating a Licensing Deal with a Start-Up

I recently gave a webinar on Negotiating License Agreements with Start-Ups, and wanted to follow up on that program with some comments for Silicon Valley IP Licensing Law Blog readers on some of the challenges that companies may face when negotiating an IP licensing deal with a start-up. In the years that I have worked…

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Getty Images Copyright Dispute Against Microsoft to Challenge Legality of Recently Released Widget

Getty Images made news in the copyright world this week by filing a complaint against Microsoft Corporation in the Southern District of New York for “infringing and facilitating the massive infringement of [its] copyrights” through its release of the new Bing Image Widget service. To review the full complaint, click here. The case is significant…

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Technology Transfer Tactics Interviews Kristie Prinz on Tech Transfer Commercialization Dilemma

I wanted to share with blog readers an interview that I recently had with Technology Transfer Tactics on the issue of whether poster presentations jeopardize a tech transfer office’s commercialization offices. While the issue does not have much application to the business world and is really very specific to the intellectual property which is developed…

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