Tucker Arensberg's Technology practice group is comprised of attorneys from each of the firm's practice areas so as to provide services from as many legal disciplines as possible.

Typical Technology Company Representations:

• The firm routinely advises clients on financing matters, including introductions to and negotiating with angel investors, venture capital firms and conventional debt-equity financing.

• The firm routinely counsels technology clients on the following business issues:

-corporate formation /structure issues

- employment contracts and creative compensations structures

- non-competes and other restrictive employment covenants

- trade secret matters

• The firm has handled numerous patent, trademark and copyright restrictions for software, architectural and literary works and counsels clients on infringement issues. Additionally, the firm has litigated many disputes involving all of these matters.

• The firm has prosecuted scores of actions on behalf of employers to enforce restrictive covenants based upon four departing employees' access to trade secrets.

• Our attorneys have advised many clients on patentability of products, devices and processes including business and software algorithm methods for financial institutional clients.

• The firm brought an action on behalf of a software consulting and e-commerce firm against a former employee who, the day he announced his resignation to join a competitor, sent an e-mail to his personal account which included highly confidential information downloaded from the employer's database.

• One of the firm's attorneys defended, in a federal criminal case, the first defendant prosecuted in the Western District of Pennsylvania under the federal Economic Espionage Act. Following a preliminary hearing but prior to the actual trial, the attorney obtained a favorable plea agreement.

• Representing a franchisor, the firm successfully obtained an injunction against former franchisee based upon claims of unfair competition and trademark infringement. The injunction prevented the franchisee form using the markings, logo and name of the franchisor.

• The firm defended a manufacturing concern which had been accused of using technical information which had been wrongfully obtained from the plaintiff.

• The firm represented an employer seeking to enforce a restrictive employment covenant which was based upon the former employee's access to trade secrets.

• The firm defended a large pharmaceutical manufacturer in a patent infringement action. A favorable settlement resulted.

• The firm has been approved as panel counsel by a large insurance company in reference to a new e-commerce/Internet coverage it has began to offer.

• The firm has handled numerous disputes arising from the use of Internet domain names.

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