We provide management consulting and expert witness services. Our focus is on intellectual property including customs and practices in the software industry, particularly for SaaS and e-commerce companies.
We are often asked to provide opinions regarding “customs and practices” in the software industry, particularly for SaaS companies and e-commerce companies involved in disputes.
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We have been retained in over twenty different disputes and licensing matters involving software companies. Our work has included software development; sales and marketing; payment practices; partner relationships; licensing; and other issues for software provisioned on premises, SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS.
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We have been retained as an expert witness in several patent matters in the District Courts. Additionally, we have been retained to prepare filings with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
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We have been retained as an expert witness in more than twenty different software trade secret matters. Dr. Kursh has worked on matters related to financial services, health care, e-commerce, real estate, telecommunications, retailing, distribution, automotive, and other industries.
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Our objective in this paper is to discuss how three advancements in the enterprise software industry — Software as a Service, End of Availability, and Software in Suites — have impacted enterprise software licensing practices, and why those of us who license software at enterprises need to rethink our practices.
June 2026
Perpetual licenses once made sense, but today they slow innovation and raise risk. EOA and subscriptions are the engineering reality enterprises must face. Here’s our thoughts about the end of perpetual enterprise software licenses. Read the full article here
January 27, 2026
One of our primary practice areas is Reasonable Measures to Protect Trade Secrets. Dr. Kursh has served as an expert witness regarding reasonable measures in several cases. He has worked on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. He has also been the coauthor of several articles on the topic. See below, for example, for links to […]
August 15, 2025
Dr. Kursh’s recent publications include papers titled “Assessing the Impact of Software As A Service (SaaS) Innovations on Disrupting the Enterprise Software Industry” (December 2024); “An Introduction to the ‘How To’ for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” (December 2021); “Revisiting Goldilocks: Reasonable Measures to Protect Trade Secrets in an Era of Enterprise Collaboration and Cybersecurity Risk Management” (September 2025); “Last Rites for Perpetual Enterprise Software Licenses?” (January 2026); and “It’s Time to Rethink Our Enterprise Software Licenses” (June 2026).
