Moorcrofts LLP remains noted for its specialist expertise when it comes to the areas of open source software and hardware intellectual property and licensing, whilst also possessing strong knowledge in cloud access rights and neighbouring intellectual property rights. Marlow’s Andrew Katz leads the team, and focuses on the core areas of open source licensing, open hardware licensing, technology law and intellectual property. Tim Astley is another important port of call.

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Key clients

  • Graphaware
  • BenevolentAI
  • PagerDuty Inc.
  • Distribution Technology Limited
  • Payara Services Limited
  • Mathematical Market Research
  • Camunda Services AG
  • Linked Data Benchmark Council
  • Transport 2 (UK) Limited
  • Biz2Mobile Limited
  • Genle Ltd trading as "GoToGroup"
  • InixionLimited
  • Vault Sentinel Limited
  • Open Forum Europe, Fraunhofer Institute
  • GÉANT Vereniging (Association)

Work highlights

  • Advised Graphaware on the intellectual property and legal framework for their new flagship product “Hume” as well as continually providing commercial and strategic support and advice to GraphAware in the expansion of its business.
  • Advised PagerDuty Inc. on European deals and also helped localise template documents.
  • Advised Biz2Mobile on agreements covering the expansion of sales channels and compliance to the OpenChain ISO standard.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Andrew Katz
Moorcrofts LLP

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Andrew Katz

Other key lawyers

Tim Astley