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Winslow Taub

Winslow Taub focuses his practice on commercial, licensing, and M&A transactions in the technology sector. He has advised a broad range of public and private companies with respect to collaborations, joint ventures, technology development and licensing programs, and other complex commercial transactions. Winslow has also represented both buyers and sellers on intellectual property and technology issues in a number of public and private company investments and acquisitions. Winslow has worked in the software and hardware industries, as an attorney and an engineer, for more than 25 years.

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Technology companies are grappling with unprecedented changes that promise to accelerate exponentially in the challenging period ahead. We invite you to join Covington experts and invited presenters from around the world to explore the key issues faced by businesses developing or deploying cutting-edge technologies. These highly concentrated sessions are packed with immediately actionable advice. Each day closes with an industry spotlight, providing insights from leading tech authorities. This year’s industry spotlights will feature:

  • Dennis Garcia, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft – Emerging Trends for AI in Latin America
  • Janel Thamkul, Deputy General Counsel, Anthropic – The Frontier Model Landscape
  • Eric Sprink, CEO, Coastal Community Bank – Developments in the Regulatory Landscape

Continue Reading Covington’s Fifth Annual Technology Forum – Looking Ahead: New Legal Frontiers for the Tech Industry

The District Court for the Northern District of California recently granted, in substantial part, separate motions to dismiss a complaint challenging three defendants’ creation or use of Stable Diffusion, a generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) application used to generate images based on user-supplied instructions.Continue Reading Motion to Dismiss Granted in Case About The Intersection of Copyright Law and Generative AI

            On April 28, 2022, Covington convened experts across our practice groups for the Covington Robotics Forum, which explored recent developments and forecasts relevant to industries affected by robotics.  Winslow Taub, Partner in Covington’s Technology Transactions Practice Group, and Jennifer Plitsch, Chair of Covington’s Government Contracts Practice Group, discussed the robotics issues presented in private…

Continue Reading Robotics Spotlight: Dealmaking in the Robotics Space

MongoDB, the developer of a popular document-oriented distributed database server by the same name, has updated the open source license that applies to versions of its software published after October 16, 2018.

Previously, the MongoDB software was licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v.3 (“AGPLv3”), which is a “strong copyleft” license. Strong copyleft licenses, among other things, require that the source code for the licensed software (including any modifications) be made available to the public, typically when the software is distributed to third parties. AGPLv3 goes further than other strong copyleft licenses in that the obligation to make source code available is triggered not only when the software is distributed, but also when it is accessed over a computer network, such as the Internet.

In an apparent response to attempts by users of MongoDB to architect their services so as to avoid the obligation to make their source code modifications available under AGPLv3, MongoDB has created a modified version of AGPLv3 (see here for a redline comparison) with broader disclosure and licensing obligations. The new license is called the Server Side Public License v.1 (“SSPLv1”).Continue Reading Understanding MongoDB’s New Copyleft Open Source License