NP 2.0™
Next-generation legal solutions for digital
content and technology
Every form of human knowledge and artistic achievement can now be transmitted
instantly in digital form. While this “digital world” opens up tremendous
opportunities for commerce, it also presents significant and ever-changing legal
obstacles. With its clients’ goals in mind, Nixon Peabody created NP 2.0, a
multidisciplinary Digital Content and Technology solution, to overcome the next
generation of challenges presented by the digital world. Led by a diverse group
of practitioners skilled in the areas of law necessary to support today’s
businesses, NP 2.0 uses its cross-disciplinary resources to provide the business
counsel that Nixon Peabody’s clients need to thrive in an evolving digital
economy.
Next-generation resources
Every sector of the global economy is affected by the challenges presented by
the digital world. NP 2.0 can provide the legal resources your business needs,
including:
- Experienced business lawyers, skilled at addressing the licensing and
transactional needs facing companies in a digital economy
- Leading intellectual property counselors and litigators who are as
comfortable helping clients build and protect their intellectual property
assets as they are defending them
- Forward-thinking regulatory and compliance lawyers
NP 2.0 is built to provide counsel to its clients seamlessly, independent of
the firm’s geographic locations or practice groups. This allows a client to
receive targeted legal advice from the right lawyer at the right time.
Nixon Peabody’s suite of collaboration tools optimizes communications between
its lawyers and NP 2.0 clients. In particular, our secure client extranets
enable clients electronically to access, archive, and manage a wide range of
confidential client and case-related information from any place, at any time.
Transactions and licensing
Whether a business needs to license its software or a patent, or transfer
technology to a business partner, the NP 2.0 team has the business and
technological acumen necessary to achieve our clients’ digital-world goals. Our
lawyers have extensive experience in conceptualizing, negotiating, and drafting
all of the agreements companies need to develop, license, obtain, and
commercialize their technology to excel in the digital economy. We provide the
following services:
- Patent licensing
- Joint development
- Software licensing
- Content acquisition and distribution
- Technology transfer
Intellectual property procurement, deployment, and litigation
NP 2.0 lawyers regularly build, enforce, and defend portfolios of
intellectual property rights in a strategic manner aimed at maximizing the
client’s business goals. It is critical for businesses to understand how their
intellectual property positions compare to their competitors’. Maximizing the
value of a client’s intellectual property assets—whether patents, trademarks,
trade secrets, or copyrights—requires evaluating those assets in the context of
what the competition has and doesn’t have, and aligning the client’s overall
business strategy accordingly.
When called to protect a client’s business innovation, NP 2.0 provides a full
range of prosecution-related services to fulfill this objective. The lawyers of
NP 2.0 prepare and prosecute hundreds of patent applications each year in all
areas of technology and in March 2007, we were ranked by IP Today as one
of the leading patent procurement law firms in the United States.
When litigation is necessary, NP 2.0’s seasoned trial lawyers are just as
skilled at litigating antitrust matters as they are in trying a client’s patent,
trademark, copyright, and trade-secret cases. Due to the instantaneous nature of
the digital world, a trade-secret breach or theft can occur as fast as it takes
someone to hit the return key on a keyboard. Clients need lawyers who can act
quickly and seek immediate injunctive relief to stop the damage while pursing
appropriate remedies. With NP 2.0, our clients get experienced trial counsel who
have been exceptionally successful in obtaining such relief. Similarly, our NP
2.0 lawyers have been equally successful in defeating efforts by competitors
alleging a breach or infringement by our clients.
Privacy regulation and cybercompliance
Members of our NP 2.0 team work with clients at the intersection of content
and technology. We have extensive experience with the legal and business issues
that arise in these dynamic industries. With content and technology merging and
producing new types of companies, our deep understanding of the unique legal and
business issues is a valuable asset to clients.
NP 2.0 helps our clients navigate the issues facing companies handling
digital content, including:
- privacy regulation
- technology export
- terms of use and
- data security online contracting
- technology standards
- adult content issues
- cybercrime issues
- international regulations
Corporate experience in the digital economy
The digital world has created new business opportunities, and NP 2.0 helps
its digital media and technology clients with financing, mergers and
acquisitions, and public offering activities. Whether you are seeking funding
for a new venture or preparing to take your existing company public, our lawyers
are equipped with the experience to help your business prosper in today’s
digital landscape.
New business opportunities often lead to new opportunities for growth and
collaboration. With NP 2.0, businesses can be assured of having corporate
lawyers on their side who have specific experience guiding some of today’s most
cutting-edge businesses. Our successes include serving as:
- Lead counsel for a publicly traded videogame publisher’s asset-purchase
of a major franchise/business unit from another publicly traded videogame
publisher
- Lead counsel for sale of a privately held wireless game publisher to a
publicly traded videogame publisher
- Counsel for a privately held videogame publisher’s acquisition of a
privately held game developer
- Company counsel for Series B financing for a service provider to the
videogame industry
- Company counsel for formation and Series A financing for a music
management company
- Company counsel for refinancing of a wireless content publisher
- Advisor to a company with respect to a joint venture for distribution of
interactive entertainment with a satellite distribution partner