The California Court of Appeal just issued a decision in Sllvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp.

Purchaser of misappropriated source code is not liable for misappropriation of trade secrets by executing machine-readable code translated from source code.

Ellie Khabazian will be presenting at the 360|Flex Conference taking place in San Jose March 7-10, 2010 on the topic of What Every Software Developer Should know Before Entering into a Contract. Ensuring that the right language is in your contract has the potential of saving you from a financially and emotionally devastating lawsuit. At this session you will learn basic contract principles that can help drastically minimize your exposure when entering into software contracts.  You will learn about specific laws that apply to software development and we will discuss specific examples of their application that are pertinent to you. Software licenses, significant contract provisions and remedies for breach of contract will also be discussed.

Please see http://360flex-EllieK.eventbrite for ticket information.

Ellie Khabazian's legal guide titled "How to Negotiate Effectively" has been honored as a "Staff Pick" by AVVO. The article is published here: http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/how-to-negotiate-effectively

The full length original version of the article is published here: http://www.lawthought.com/articles/17-articles/52-negotiate-effectively

Ellie Khabazian will be presenting at the Orange County Multimedia Association on the topic of What Every Multimedia Professional Should Know Before Entering into a Contract on November 17, 2009 during the 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. meeting. More information is available at www.ocmma.org.