Tech Transactions

Every engagement in this service

Market-benchmarked flat-fee legal pricing. Attorney fees are scoped in advance against a written deliverable and set with reference to public competitor ranges and official USPTO, Copyright Office, and WIPO fees. Government and third-party fees are billed separately, at cost.

• Software / API Agreement Negotiation

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: $1,900

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: $1,900
  $1,900 (flat)
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  Negotiating a vendor- or partner-presented software or API agreement on the client’s behalf.

  What’s included

  • Review of the proposed agreement.
  • Markup and counter-positions on key commercial and IP terms.
  • Up to one negotiation round with the counterparty and a follow-up call with the client.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Open-ended back-and-forth negotiation beyond one round.

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.
  • Identify priority issues and provide the most recent draft.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.
  • Single agreement; two-party deal; standard length and complexity.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.
  • Multi-party deals or sustained negotiation.

  Deliverables
  Marked-up agreement and a short issues memo.

  Typical timing
  Typically 2–3 weeks.

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• Software / API Agreement Review

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: $1,200

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: $1,200
  $1,200 (flat)
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  A focused attorney review of a vendor- or counterparty-supplied software or API agreement without active negotiation.

  What’s included

  • Attorney review of the agreement.
  • Written issues memo highlighting risks and suggested edits.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Negotiation with the counterparty (see Negotiation service).

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  Issues memo and short markup.

  Typical timing
  Typically 1–2 weeks.

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• Marketplace Launch Package

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: $4,500

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: $4,500
  $4,500 (flat)
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  Founders launching a two-sided marketplace who need a core legal package (terms, seller agreement, buyer terms, content/IP policy, basic privacy notice).

  What’s included

  • Customized Terms of Service, Seller / Provider Agreement, Buyer Terms.
  • Acceptable-use / content / IP policy.
  • Baseline privacy notice (U.S.).

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Payments licensing, tax, and securities counseling.
  • EU/UK/Canada-specific privacy build-out (separate engagement).

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.
  • Provide the product description, payment/fee structure, and risk areas.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.
  • U.S. launch; one product line; one primary geography.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.
  • Adding multi-jurisdiction privacy, regulated categories (alcohol, firearms, healthcare), or international consumer law.

  Deliverables
  Customized policy and contract package.

  Typical timing
  Typically 3–5 weeks.

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• AI Product Legal Risk Review

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: $3,900

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: $3,900
  $3,900 (flat)
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  A founder or product team launching an AI-powered product who wants a structured legal-risk review across IP, data, contract, and disclosure issues.

  What’s included

  • Product, data-flow, and training-data discovery.
  • Risk memo addressing IP, copyright, privacy, output liability, and material disclosure issues.
  • Practical recommendations and policy/contract gaps to close.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Technical audits or model evaluation.
  • Lobbying or regulatory submissions.

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.
  • Provide a product description, data-flow diagram (if available), and existing terms.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.
  • One product; one primary jurisdiction.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  Risk memo and recommended actions.

  Typical timing
  Typically 3–4 weeks.

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• Open-Source Checkup

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: $3,000

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: $3,000
  $3,000 (flat)
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  Teams that want a focused review of their open-source usage and policy before a release, audit, or financing.

  What’s included

  • Review of OSS components and license obligations (based on client-supplied inventory or readily-available scan).
  • Short policy memo and recommended remediation steps.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Code scanning beyond client-supplied output (third-party tooling fees separate).

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.
  • Provide the OSS inventory and current OSS policy (if any).

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  OSS policy memo.

  Typical timing
  Typically 3–4 weeks.

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• OSS Compliance Counseling

  Tiered Fee · Attorney fee: $1,500 / $2,500 / $3,500

  Engagement type: Tiered Fee

  Attorney fee: $1,500 / $2,500 / $3,500
  Tier 1: $1,500 dependency review · Tier 2: $2,500 multi-repo review and policy memo · Tier 3: $3,500 audit and remediation plan
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  More substantial OSS compliance programs (multi-product, multi-team), audits, or M&A diligence-driven cleanups.

  What’s included

  • Tier 1 — dependency review of a single repository or product, with a licence-obligation summary.
  • Tier 2 — multi-repo review plus a written open-source policy memo.
  • Tier 3 — full audit and a written remediation plan with prioritised fixes.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Code scanning, litigation, or open-source community negotiation outside scope.

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  Per engagement letter.

  Typical timing
  Set in writing.

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• Vendor Lock-In Review

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: $1,250

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: $1,250
  $1,250 (flat)
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  A focused review of one or two vendor agreements to identify lock-in, exit, and data-portability risks.

  What’s included
  Review of identified agreements and a short risk memo.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Negotiation with the vendor (separate engagement).

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.
  • Up to two agreements.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  Lock-in risk memo.

  Typical timing
  Typically 1–2 weeks.

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• Domain Acquisition Support

  Tiered Fee · Attorney fee: $1,200–$2,500

  Engagement type: Tiered Fee

  Attorney fee: $1,200–$2,500
  $1,200 – $2,500 flat for the transaction documents and closing. Buyer-side negotiation and broker outreach are scoped separately, hourly or on a success fee.
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  Acquiring a specific domain name from a third party (negotiation, escrow / transfer support, and risk review).

  What’s included

  • Domain purchase agreement, drafted or reviewed.
  • Escrow and transfer instructions, and closing support through registrar transfer.
  • Buyer-side negotiation and broker outreach are quoted separately — they do not standardise into a flat fee.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • The purchase price of the domain itself, escrow fees, and broker fees.
  • Litigation.

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  Per engagement letter.

  Typical timing
  Set in writing.

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• UDRP / URS Counseling (complex)

  Tiered Fee · Attorney fee: $250 / $2,500–$3,500 / $6,500–$9,500

  Engagement type: Tiered Fee

  Attorney fee: $250 / $2,500–$3,500 / $6,500–$9,500
  Tier 1: $250 written assessment · Tier 2: $2,500 – $3,500 standard complaint (1–5 domains, single registrant) · Tier 3: $6,500 – $9,500 complex matter (multiple registrants, three-member panel). WIPO / FORUM panel fees are billed separately at cost.
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  UDRP/URS matters involving multiple domains, multiple respondents, or atypical fact patterns.

  What’s included

  • Tier 1 — written assessment of whether the domain is recoverable.
  • Tier 2 — standard UDRP or URS complaint covering one to five domains held by a single registrant.
  • Tier 3 — complex matter: multiple registrants, or a three-member panel.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Court actions (separate engagement).

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  Per engagement letter.

  Typical timing

  • Set in writing.
  • Engagements supporting research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E), defense / dual-use technologies, federal funding pathways, and export-sensitive matters. Almost all matters in this category are custom-quoted because scope is highly fact-specific.

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• Enterprise Contract Templates

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: $8,500

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: $8,500
  $8,500 (flat)
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  A core set of customized enterprise contract templates (e.g., MSA, DPA, order form, reseller, NDA) for a B2B company.

  What’s included
  Customized template set, with playbook notes.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Implementation in a CLM system.
  • Counterparty negotiation.

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.
  • U.S. baseline; one product line.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  Template set and playbook notes.

  Typical timing
  Typically 4–6 weeks.

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• Contract Clause Library

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: $2,400

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: $2,400
  $2,400 (flat)
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  A curated, customized clause library for in-house use across recurring contract issues (IP, data, indemnity, limitation of liability, etc.).

  What’s included
  Customized clause library with attorney commentary.

  What’s NOT included

  • Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
  • Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
  • Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
  • Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
  • Counterparty negotiation.

  Client responsibilities

  • Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
  • Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
  • Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.

  Assumptions

  • Standard complexity for the service category.
  • One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
  • One round of substantive client revisions included.
  • No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.

  Scope-change triggers

  • Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
  • Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
  • Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
  • After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.

  Deliverables
  Clause library.

  Typical timing
  Typically 3–4 weeks.

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• NDA

  Flat Fee · Attorney fee: From $550

  Engagement type: Flat Fee

  Attorney fee: From $550
  USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.

  Best for
  Founders, sales teams, ops teams, and product teams that need a confidentiality agreement drafted for a specific situation.

  What’s included

  • A custom NDA drafted for your specific situation, with clear terms on confidentiality, return of materials, and use restrictions.
  • Standard, development, manufacturer, or mutual forms.

  Source: Our Services (May 2026). A full scope card for this engagement is not yet in the Transparent Service Offerings catalog.

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Final fee confirmed in the engagement letter. Figures on this page are illustrative. Flat fees may be split into milestones where the engagement letter allows.

When to bring us in

Contract questions we get asked

• My developer built the app. Do I own the code?

  Not automatically. Work made for hire applies narrowly and generally covers employees acting within their employment, not independent contractors. Without a written assignment signed by the contractor, the developer may hold the copyright in code you paid in full for, and you may only have an implied licence to use it. This surfaces at the worst possible moment, during acquisition diligence, and it is cheap to fix before the work starts and expensive afterwards.

• Can I just use a template from the internet?

  For very low stakes agreements, sometimes. The risk is that templates are written for a generic business, and the clauses that matter for a technology venture, IP ownership, licence scope, data rights, indemnity and limitation of liability, are exactly the ones a generic template handles badly or not at all. A template also cannot tell you which terms are unusual in your industry, which is most of the value of having someone read the other side’s draft.

• The other side sent their standard agreement and says it is non negotiable.

  That is often true of the commercial terms and rarely true of all of it. Even where price and structure are fixed, the IP ownership, confidentiality, indemnity and termination provisions are frequently adjustable, particularly with larger counterparties whose template was drafted for a different kind of supplier. A short review will tell you which clauses are genuinely standard and which two or three are worth pushing on.

• What does a contract review actually cost?

  Contract work is scoped and quoted as a flat fee before it starts, based on the length and complexity of the agreement and whether you need a review with comments or full negotiation through signature. If contracts are arriving regularly, the fractional general counsel arrangement usually works out cheaper than paying per agreement.