duediligence

13 December 2022 · Articles, Innovation, Software

‘Everyone uses opensource it’s fine’

If the product/service at the core of the company is built on too much opensource, the company may not actually be in a position to claim ownership of core business intellectual property (such as proprietary code, copyright and trade secrets) which in turn may yield a company valuation far less than desirable.

18 October 2022 · Articles, IP Value

What is due diligence?

Would you hire a head of cyber security who had links to the KGB ? Such due diligence is usually quite a serious and thorough exercise. However, it appears due diligence may be more of a laughing matter (or not!) to the Germans: It took a comedian, Jan Böhmermann, to reveal that the German Head of […]