IP Transfers During IT Outsourcing

According to a January 3, 3005 article in Law Technology News, Forrester Research estimated in 2003 that the $4 billion in U.S. wages that floated offshore in 2000 will become a tidal wave of $136 billion -- and 3.3 million IT-related jobs -- by 2015. Along with that exodus, intellectual property rights will have to be transferred from the final human developer to the end customer. Here are six different business models that explain the process.