A federal appeals court has ruled that, at least under Massachusetts law, a company that acquired another company’s technology assets, for cash plus an earn-out, was obligated to use reasonable efforts to promote the technology, so that the seller would have a shot at the earn-out payments. See this Law.com article about the First Circuit’s Sonora Scanners case, reversing and remanding a summary judgment in favor of the acquiring company (discussed on another point in this posting).
An acquirer of technology assets in an earn-out transaction may have a duty to make reasonable efforts to promote the technology – 1st Circuit
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