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If you missed the recent webinar by Silicon Valley SaaS Lawyer Kristie Prinz on "Best Practices for Negotiating and Drafting SaaS Contracts," a recording of the program is now available on demand for viewing. To view the program, please visit...
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Silicon Valley Software Law Blog's Kristie Prinz will be presenting an upcoming web on "Negotiating SaaS Agreements: Drafting Key Contract Provisions, Protecting Customer and Vendor Interests" on August 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. PST/1:00 p.m PST for Virginia-based Clear Law...
Silicon Valley Software Law Blog's Kristie Prinz will be presenting a webinar on July 25, 2019 for CLE provider Strafford a webinar titled "Drafting Software Hosting Agreements: Service Availability, Performance, Data Security, Other Key Provisions." Ms. Prinz's co-presenter will be...
The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has put software companies and software service providers on notice it intends to interpret the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act's Safeguards Rule broadly to apply to businesses which make available software or services that serve financial, payroll, and...
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The Supreme Court has ruled against Apple in an antitrust case claiming that the App store has created a monopoly over the sale of apps and has used the monopoly to charge consumers higher than the majority price. Justice Kavanaugh...
The Prinz Law Office, which publishes the Silicon Valley Software Law Blog, has announced the opening of its new San Francisco Bay Area location in San Francisco. The new location will enable the firm to better serve clients in the...
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Silicon Valley Software 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 10:00 a.m. PST/ 1 p.m. EST. The Prinz Law Office is...
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If your company has either pursued Privacy Shield certification, or publicly claimed to be in pursuit of Privacy Shield certification, recent enforcement action by the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") should put your company on notice that failure to maintain your...
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I was recently asked for a list of the top mistakes the average company will make when they enter into a software deal without getting an experienced software lawyer involved early in the negotiations. I thought it was an excellent...
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After spending months preparing to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), software companies now have a new U.S. data privacy law to be concerned with. California has just passed a landmark data privacy law of its...
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I recently presented for myLawCLE on the topic of drafting software hosting agreements. I am pleased to now be able to share a recording of the full, two-hour presentation with interested Software Law Blog readers:
Silicon Valley Software Law Blog Author Kristie Prinz will be presenting 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...
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Silicon Valley Software 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...
SaaS attorney Kristie Prinz will be speaking at a webinar on "Best Practices for Drafting SaaS Contracts that Reduce the Customer Sales Cycle & Avoid Disputes" sponsored by The Prinz Law Office. The event will take place on October 26,...
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...
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Democratic Senator Brain Schatz of Hawaii and Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin have introduced the "Protecting Our Ability to Counter Hacking Act of 2017," also known as the "PATCH Act of 2017" in the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and...
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My firm is very involved with VC Taskforce, and our big spring event is coming up this Thursday: StartUp World 2017. The event is being held this year at Pillsbury in Palo Alto, and we are pleased to have more...
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When SaaS companies and start-ups first contact me, they are often doing so with the idea that there are a few really well SaaS template contracts circulating in the SaaS industry and they seeking the" right" attorney to provide that...
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I have some remaining complimentary passes available for tomorrow's panel presentation on "Negotiating Service Level Agreement Key Terms" hosted by Strafford Publications. If you would like to attend, please send me a request today at kprinz@prinzlawoffice.com and I'll see if I...
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The Prinz Law Office is pleased to announce that Silicon Valley Software Law Blog's Kristie Prinz will be speaking at an upcoming webinar on "Negotiating Service Level Agreement Key Terms" on December 21, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 PST....
The Prinz Law Office is pleased to announce that Silicon Valley Software Law Blog's Kristie Prinz will be speaking at an upcoming webinar "Negotiating Software as a Service Contracts" on December 19, 2016 from 1 to 2:15 p.m. EST. For...
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The Federal Trade Commission has today announced the approval of its final order resolving its complaint against the San Francisco-based software company Vulcan on deceptive and misleading conduct allegations that Vulcan had purchased a browser extension game and replaced it...
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If your software company leases office spaces, then you may have some familiarity with the legal issues involving whether or not the space is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (the "ADA"), but have you ever considered whether your...
Microsoft has just opened a new chapter in the software industry's pushback against alleged federal government overreach by filing a constitutional challenge over indefinite government gag orders when the government subpoenas information from customer cloud accounts. Microsoft's complaint alleges that...
The U.S. Justice Department announced yesterday that the third party who came forward and convinced the FBI that it could unlock the San Bernardino terrorist's encrypted iPhone successfully unlocked the encrypted iPhone, ending the standoff between Apple and the FBI. ...
Silicon Valley Software 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...
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The Prinz Law Office has just launched a new meetup group on Copyright, Software, Internet & Social Media and the Law in conjunction with the High Tech Section of the Santa Clara County Bar Association. The firm anticipates having remote...
In the event you missed the program featuring co-presenters Silicon Valley Software Law Blog's Kristie Prinz and Reed Smith's Kelley Miller and produced by Stafford Publications in September, 2015, the webinar is available now for viewing by our blog readers at the following link: View...
Silicon Valley Software Law Blog Author 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 Monday, November 2nd at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EDT. ...
The Silicon Valley Software Law Blog's Kristie Prinz will be a featured speaker at the upcoming CLE program "Negotiating Software as a Service Contracts" on Tuesday, September 8th from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT. For more information on the upcoming program,...
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Privacy groups are raising alarms in response to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Introduction of a new cybersecurity bill: the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 ("CISA"). The text of the current bill has been made available for viewing at this...
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The big story on the Internet today is about the new app-based ride service Uber: California regulators have just notified Uber and its competitors, Lyft and Sidecar, that the services are illegal under California law. An article by Forbes Contributor...
California has just enacted a smartphone kill switch law, which will require all smartphones sold in the state of California as of July, 2015, to have kill switch features enabled as the default settings on the smartphone. SB 962 requires...
California has just added a new type of clause to the list of clauses that violate public policy in the state: the non-disparagement clause. Governor Jerry Brown has just signed AB 2365, which prohibits companies from including nondisparagement clauses in...
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that Google has agreed to refund customers' unauthorized in-app purchases made by their children in the Google Play Store pursuant to a settlement over a complaint filed by the Commission alleging violations of Section...
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland has awarded damages in excess of $163 million in a FTC case against a "scareware" software company, Innovative Marketing, Inc. and its founders. The FTC alleged violations of Sections 5(a) and...
The FTC has just announced proposed changes to its existing rules protecting children's online privacy and is currently accepting public comment to the proposed rules through September 10, 2012. The proposed changes would amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule...
President Obama yesterday unveiled his new consumer privacy initiative, as was announced on the White House website. To view the full text of the initiative, click here. The purpose of the initiative is to urge Congress to adopt a Consumer...
Now that SOPA and its companion bill PIPA have been tabled thanks in no small part to the statement made by the online community in organizing the SOPA blackout, the focus shifts to the Online Protection and Enforcement of the...
A number of prominent websites have organized an anti-SOPA protest tomorrow, and are set to blackout for the day. A blackout instructions website has been set up to advise Internet website owners on what to make your website go dark...
Companies distributing applications on the Apple App store should take note: multiple companies today have stopped selling content from their applications sold on the Apple App store, suggesting that Apple is taking steps to enforce its new rules to collect...
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have a tendency to want to offer equity to anyone who they hire when they are first getting off the ground, and some developers prefer to receive equity in the business over an IOU that they may...
Disputes over development projects are extremely common in even the best of economies, but are particularly common in today's world, where most companies are on a tight budget and developers are always on the lookout for better paying opportunities. In...
I receive a call nearly every day from an entrepreneur who has a great idea for a new software start-up company, and is concerned about how to protect that idea before he or she is able to launch it. Unfortunately,...
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