David E. Gould

David E. Gould

David E. Gould represents many technology providers, distributors, licensees and other end-users in connection with the selection, negotiation and acquisition of technology systems.

David has experience on issues arising from the licensing and commercialization of intellectual property, as well as issues related to the protection of such intellectual property. He has also assisted a wide range of clients in the drafting and negotiating of licenses, maintenance and support agreements, service level agreements, value added reseller and distribution agreements, consulting services agreements, source code escrow agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, non-disclosure agreements, letters of intent, business development and co-marketing agreements, and domestic and international technology distribution and development agreements.

Some examples of David's recent representative transactions include:

· Representing Equitable Resources in a series of million-dollar information technology licensing, consulting, hardware, software and service transactions with top-tier vendors in connection with a pending merger and acquisition of two natural gas companies.

· Representing a major university affiliated health system in the negotiation of a system-wide, multimillion dollar lease agreement for cutting-edge technology system providing digital imaging of patients' radiology tests.

· Developing agreements and operating rules for a new online payment mechanism and negotiated major merchant agreements with multiple publicly traded e-commerce, retail and mail order industry leaders; also negotiating agreements for infrastructure management, customer service, processing and hosting.

· Representing a wearable body monitoring technology solution provider in the negotiation of strategic alliance agreements, cooperative agreements and research agreements for disease management, club-based fitness and wellness product development and distribution with top health care, fitness and consumer products companies.

· Representing a publicly traded company in the acquisition of an electronic document management system, renewal of enterprise telecommunications and data services, lease of critical application servers, licensing of a supervisory control and data acquisition system and review and negotiation of new enterprise wide licensing and consulting services agreements.

David has also assisted clients, both large and small, on a wide variety of general corporate finance and commercial transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, financings and strategic investments, and joint ventures and strategic alliances.

David was an associate columnist for the National Law Journal online has written and co-written technology alerts as well as articles for regional publications (such as TEQ Magazine).

From time to time, David lectures on the subjects of entity selection, general Internet law, open source issues, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and other technology issues.

While in law school, he worked as associate director of admission and financial aid with Carnegie Mellon University. In this role, he coordinated and monitored the financial aid awarding process for the incoming undergraduate class.

Publications & Speeches

2006: Year of the GPLv3 (Part 3)
September 21, 2006

2006: Year of the GPLv3 (Part 2)
August 29, 2006

2006: Year of the GPLv3 (Part 1)
July 28, 2006

Open Source Software: Free but Not Without Cost - Part 2 of 2
March 26, 2004

Open Source Software: Free But Not Without Cost - Part 1 of 2
January 27, 2004