Betsy Burkhard

Betsy Burkhard focuses her practice on intellectual property-related transactional matters. Her experience includes IP licensing, technology and commercial due diligence for corporate transactions, electronic commerce and information technology (IT), and IT outsourcing for financial institutions.

Betsy advises on the IP ramifications of M&A and finance transactions, including conducting due diligence and negotiating IP terms related to ownership and licensing of IP, software development and integration, open-source software issues, and IT transition assistance matters.

Betsy also guides clients through, IT outsourcing transactions, online social networking issues, electronic contracting and contract issues involving regulatory compliance. She represents banks and other financial institutions in negotiating core banking and similar technology vendor agreements.  Betsy also has experience in IP transactions that do not involve technology, including drafting and negotiating patent, trademark and copyright licenses, settlement, coexistence and consent agreements, domain name transfers and other IP assignment and security agreements.