This session focuses on issues (business, contractual and IP) arising when licensing software products to the Federal Government. Attendees learn about the three-year rewrite to Part 227, Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software of the Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (the DFARS). The new regulations contain, for the first time, clauses dedicated exclusively to computer software documentation, and they substantially revise the basis on which a contract can assert proprietary interests when licensing software products to the Government.

Issues Discussed:

• The role of open source in government licensing
• How software providers/contractors can maximize their rights and protect their products
• What types of licensing rights are available and how they should be drafted
• What danger signs and warning signals should you be looking for in solicitations?
• How proprietary source codes can be protected under the new regulations
• How software developers can protect proprietary applications to which the “standard contract language” would give the Government unlimited rights.