Hoyt and Knight | Services

Hoyt & Knight is a small law firm, committed to providing clients with business-oriented legal advice at reasonable rates. The attorneys at Hoyt & Knight have extensive backgrounds as in-house attorneys for technology companies. Clients will not find themselves paying large-firm rates for inexperienced associates or having to educate new attorneys about their businesses due to reassignments of their original counsel to other work.

Contract Drafting and Negotiation

Do you need a standard contract to use for sales of products or licensing of intellectual property, such as software, to your customers? Elizabeth ("Liza") Hoyt is a transactional lawyer with extensive experience in business contract drafting and negotiation. If you aren't sure that your current standard contract is working optimally for your business, as well as adequately protecting you from legal risks, she can review it with you and make any necessary revisions. Liza also can help in the negotiation and drafting of business contracts with key customers and suppliers. She can conduct formal or informal training sessions for sales organizations in software licensing and other contract issues. In addition, she often works with Finance organizations on revenue recognition issues that arise in the drafting and negotiation of software contracts.

Patents

Marlin Knight is the firm's licensed patent attorney. The subject matter areas of his practice include a variety of disk drive related technologies such as thin film materials science, error correction methods, read heads and write heads. Other fields in which he has written patents include database and compiler software and radio-frequency identification and tracking.