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Mary Katherine Kulback

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Mary Katherine specializes in intellectual property and technology matters, and assists her clients in building, commercializing, protecting, and enforcing their intangible assets. Clients turn to Mary Katherine to navigate opportunities and risks associated with emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.

Corporate Advisory Services: Mary Katherine advises on intellectual property, AI, and other technology matters associated with mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases, investments, and other strategic transactions and routinely represents buyers, sellers, investors, and investees. She provides strategic guidance on optimal structures for IP and IT transactions; negotiates and drafts intellectual property and technology provisions in purchase agreements and negotiates and draft licenses, assignments, transfers, and other agreements ancillary to the transactions; and evaluates intellectual property portfolios, companies’ practices and agreements related to the development and use of IP and technology and the protection of confidential and trade secret information, companies’ IP enforcement practices and IP-related disputes, and companies’ IP- and technology-related agreements in connection with such corporate transactions. Mary Katherine assists private equity firms and other clients in improving their practices to increase the value of intangible assets and mitigate risk. When IP is collateralized, Mary Katherine negotiates the IP provisions of security and credit agreements and handles perfection and release of security interests in intangibles.
IP / AI / Technology / Data Counseling: Mary Katherine advises emerging and established companies on the development, protection, licensing, use, and commercialization of creative, intellectual, and other intangible properties such as patents, trademarks, data, trade secrets, artificial intelligence technologies, and software. She also counsels clients on compliance with laws in connection with the development and use of such intangible assets and assessment of risk associated with the use of IP and technology (including AI). In addition, Mary Katherine provides risk management counseling in connection with IP and technology-related issues, including open source software, open source data, and AI technology. She works closely with Winston’s litigators to build value of intangible assets and mitigate risk associated with the development and use of intangible assets.
Commercial Contracting: Mary Katherine drafts and negotiates a wide variety of agreements involving intellectual property, technology, (including artificial intelligence) data, and commercial issues, including assignments, licensing and cross-licensing agreements; development agreements; joint venture agreements; strategic alliance agreements; research, development, and cooperation agreements; manufacturing agreements; service agreements; supplier agreements; reseller agreements; software as a service (SaaS), cloud service agreements, and other sourcing and IT-related agreements; consulting agreements; e-commerce agreements, and confidentiality agreements.

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