eCommerce

Dilworth Paxson's eCommerce Group is an interdisciplinary, cross-departmental group dedicated to advising clients engaged in, or seeking to engage in, business on, or relating to the Internet. Dilworth's eCommerce Group assists businesses at critical junctures in their lifecycles including:

• helping founders formulate their business models before incorporation
• helping to raise seed capital in private placements
• negotiating venture capital financing and other strategic relationships
• providing assistance in all facets of a successful eCommerce enterprise, including significant liquidity events such as public offerings and acquisitions

Our eCommerce Group lawyers provide insight and practical advice for emerging and mature companies in industries as diverse as healthcare, consumer electronics, Internet, telecommunications, financial services, real estate, and retail. They also counsel established and start-up companies on how best to protect, acquire, and license intellectual property rights.

As a firm, Dilworth Paxson has an established network of clients and contacts in the Internet industry, investment community and government that help fuel company growth through all stages of development.

Dilworth eCommerce Group incorporates many areas of practice including:

• corporate and transactional (acquisitions, licensing, financing, and secured transactions, start-ups, insurance, health care, public utility representation, general corporate, and contractual matters, etc.)
• litigation (antitrust, protecting and prosecuting intellectual property, bankruptcy, employment law, SEC enforcement, and securities litigation, etc.)
• intellectual property (patents, trademarks, software and other IP licensing, web site development agreements, IP audits, etc.)
• tax (local, state and federal tax issues, etc.)
• securities laws (capital raising transactions and investments including seed capital, angel investments, venture capital, private placements and IPO's, post-IPO compliance, reporting and disclosure matters, follow on registrations, employee benefit plans, and insider issues related to pre-IPO planning and post-IPO reporting, compliance, and transactions in company securities)

In the technology litigation area, we served as lead counsel in the landmark State Street litigation establishing that computer programs constitute patentable subject matter and rejecting the business method exception to patentability. The State Street decision has led to the extension of patent protection to e-solutions in the business world.

Always a trend-setter in legal practice, over its long history Dilworth Paxson has developed and fostered a multi-faceted national legal practice that has been on the cutting edge of many areas of the law.

Our wealth of experience and diversity enables us to provide cost-efficient and effective legal services tailored to each client's unique business and personal circumstances and goals. We pride ourselves in acting as both counselor and advocate, and would appreciate an opportunity to assist you.

For questions or additional information, please contact Michael D. Ecker, Chair of the eCommerce Group.

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