Software / IT and Intellectual Property

Hiring a consultant or need content for a visual project or film? It could be that the IP being generated is not 100% yours. Crest can help you identify what you need and how to ensure it is allocated to you.

Your business may need to buy a licence for business-critical software. Crest’s team has the experience and can review your agreement and recommend risk-adjusted areas for change, enhancing your chances of successful negotiation.

Custom (or adapted) software brings with it a dependence on the supplier for updates, maintenance and support. Crest’s team has the experience can assist you with establishing suitable arrangements, including providing for continuity in the event of financial distress (subject to jurisdiction-specific planning).

Your consultancy may have developed some IP for a client, but you need to obtain the rights to commercialize parts of this. Crest has negotiated this situation before and can offer guidance and draft agreements for your situation.

Confidentiality can seem simple, but getting this right with some projects can be of significant value. Crest’s team has experience with confidentiality documents from the simplest to highly complex and can advise you on your situation.

IT and IP are rarely isolated topics - you may want to develop IP as part of a service agreement, where you and a joint venture partner are the service provider or you may realise there is uncertainty about whether you own certain IP and you want to understand your risk. Whatever the challenge, Crest is well placed to offer guidance with a broad and complex matrix of experience.