Source codes deposit

Process

• How can your notary help you protect your source codes?
• Why deposit the source codes with a depositary?
• How often must we deposit the source codes with the depositary?
• What are the documents that the supplier should deposit with the depositary?
• Under what form must be handed, to the depositary, the source codes and the documentation?

The deposit convention

• What is the purpose of an escrow deposit agreement of the source codes?
• When can we require the deposit of source codes with a supplier?

Notary-Depositary

• Why require a notary as depositary of the source codes?
• Who verifies the deposits made by the supplier with the depositary?
• What are the obligations of the depositary and of his staff?
• When the depositary must part with the source codes?
• What are the professional fees charged by the depositary of source codes?

Obligations

• Who owns the intellectual property right of the source codes?
• How a disagreement or a legal dispute occurring within the framework of the escrow deposit agreement will be decided?
• Does the escrow deposit agreement prevent the supplier from granting guarantees to his creditors?