Author Archives: John Boruvka

John Boruvka, vice president for Iron Mountain’s Intellectual Property Management group, has been involved in the technology escrow and intellectual property management field for more than 23 years. His focus is helping companies create solutions relating to protecting intellectual property assets. John is considered an authority in the field of technology escrow and issues surrounding the role of a neutral third party in protecting intellectual property. He has participated in the development of strategies and review of thousands of technology escrow agreements for software, hardware and other proprietary information that established to protect against mergers, bankruptcies or other events that affect the ability of vendors to support their technology. A technology escrow agreement could mean the difference between losing mission-critical software that would cripple a company’s operations and maintaining continued business success. Additionally, escrow accounts can serve to protect software from patent, copyright or trade secret infringement. Courts have ruled that source code kept with a neutral third party helps meet the burden of proof for conception of an idea and serves as documentation of how a technology was developed. Mr. Boruvka has also written many articles on this topic and presented extensively at associations, industry meetings and prestigious law firms across the United States, Canada, South America and Europe, including presentations for: • American Chamber of Commerce – Argentina • International Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM) • Caucus Software Licensing Course • Caucus Technology Procurement Conference • Independent Computer Consultants Association • International Association of Contract and Commercial Managers (IACCM) • ITechLaw Association • Licensing Executive Society (LES) • MIT Enterprise Forum Computing SIG (special interest group) • Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Software Division • Softletter's SaaS University

What’s your “Plan B” if your Software Vendor Disappears?

John Boruvka March 24, 2016

A Changing Market Landscape There’s a paradigm shift taking place in technology delivery today, with the model changing from licensed software that resides on-premises to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model that is subscription-based and resides in the cloud. In the early days of SaaS, smaller and less important applications were the initial drivers, while mission-critical applications were still operated via traditional, ...