Tesla Violates Open Source Agreements; Don’t Be Like Tesla Open source software can be a two-edged sword. On the one hand, for many companies or their vendors developing a specific application to make their business more efficient, it can save valuable time because programmers don’t have to “reinvent the wheel.” On the other hand, users…
Manufacturer’s were “early adopters” of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and ERP has been in widespread use by the industry for decades. It has increased productivity and profitability without creating a massive disruption to companies and their workers. But one of the problems my manufacturing clients often encounter that I see as their ERP contract…
Counterfeit products flooding the U.S. and world markets is a huge problem, and historically China has accounted for 86-percent of the illicit and illegal goods in circulation. But as the country struggles to gain legitimacy with trading partners and foreign investors, it has conducted a major crackdown on the manufacture and sale of everything from…
Learn How To Avoid An ERP Implementation Nightmare Like Longfellow’s little girl, when things go bad with an ERP implementation, typically they are horrid. So, on June 5, I will be presenting “Avoiding an ERP Implementation Train Wreck” at the 4th Annual IP Strategy Summit here in Chicago. The summit brings together IP professionals to…
In the absence of basic planning and exquisite attention to contractual obligations, companies embarking on ERP deployment can end up in a much darker place: the courtroom. Marcus Harris explains to Information Week how to avoid this happening.
You can hardly graduate from an American high school without reading Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, which was turned into an Academy Award winning film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. Before Ms. Lee died in 2016, she signed an agreement with Broadway producer Scott Rudin to mount a stage adaptation…
Although an “amicable settlement” was reached nearly a year ago, news of the agreement between Anheuser-Busch and SAP did not slip out until the brewer published its annual report in late May. At stake was some $600-million in damages SAP was seeking, claiming that the huge American brewer allegedly made unauthorized use of some applications…
As an ERP software system attorney who negotiates contracts and litigates disputes, I’ve seen four things that can doom a newly-implemented or upgraded ERP software system: The user signing the vendor’s template contract, which is always one-sided and disadvantages the user, without negotiation, The vendor over-promising what will be delivered and what it can do;…
When police finally captured Joseph D’Angelo, the alleged Golden State Killer who had eluded arrest for decades, they used DNA evidence to track him down. The forensic team that finally pieced together enough information that led to D’Angelo’s arrest relied on law enforcement data bases. But few people realize that if they purchase a DNA…
Marcus Harris discusses the Cambridge Analytica shutdown in SC Media https://www.scmagazine.com/cambridge-analytica-shuts-down-twitter-defends-sale-of-data-to-firm/article/763108/