Technology acquisition assessment
Cosine6 provides technology due diligence services and research for venture capital and private equity groups.

COSINE6's Technology Audit relies on the following key information in order to gather a holistic account of a company's technology assets:



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Samples of all of the products of the company and all supporting documentation and past versions









Details about products currently being developed

Detailed technical architecture of all the products developed or being developed



Copies of all agreements which convey, assign or otherwise transfer any past, present or future right, title or interest in the Intellectual Property rights of the company to any third party including, but not limited to sales, licensing and development agreements






List of all the Intellectual Property rights of any third party that is incorporated into, appears in, or is otherwise associated with any of the products or services that the company currently sells, offers for sale, or maintains or is in the process of developing for sale





List of all products or services currently sold or offered for sale by the company in which open source code appears

All source code information for each of the company’s products or services including, but not limited to, the code itself, all annotations, related documentation and all information in any source code repository

All UAT and SLA documents of products and services being offered


Change Management process and procedures

Copies of all Intellectual Property rights escrow (e.g., source code escrows) agreements under which the company has deposited source code or to which the company is a party or a beneficiary

List of all United States and foreign patents of the company including patent number, issue date, inventor(s), title, dates on which maintenance fees were paid and identity of parties paying maintenance fees

List of all United States or foreign copyright registrations owned by the company

List of all registered and unregistered trademarks, servicemarks, and domain names of the company



Details about any actual or threatened litigation involving the Company’s Intellectual Property rights or the company’s alleged infringement of any third party’s Intellectual Property rights

Confirmations that the company has not disclosed any knowhow, trade secrets or customer lists to any third party other than subject to confidentiality agreements of which details have been disclosed


Confirmations that the company owns or has the right to use all Intellectual Property rights required in connection with the conduct of its businesses as presently carried on expected to be carried on in the future

List of all hardware, servers, storage devices owned and managed by the company

List of all software, licenses, security systems, email sof