About our Course
This course is designed for legal, scientific and business professionals who deal with patent and know-how licences and associated agreements.
Learn which IP provisions are key to protecting your clients’ interests and how to exploit their intellectual property assets. We’ll be discussing licences and other agreements with licensing provisions, examining critical clauses and looking at a range of examples to give you the skills you need to execute these agreements.
Day 1 of the course 'Enforcing and Challenging Patents' gives you the tools you need to determine whether you or a third party need a licence. while Day 2 ('Licensing') examines the key provisions in licence agreements, highlighting traps for the unwary.
Who Should Attend?
Are you a business development manager, technology transfer professional, licensing executive, commercial lawyer or contract specialist dealing with IP licence agreements in a technology related area? These are competitive and fast-moving fields, where intellectual property assets can be extremely valuable so it's critical to get the licence agreement right. Whether you’re in- or out- licensing IP, it’s essentiail that you have a solid understanding of the legal principles underpinning these agreements.
Outline of Course
DAY 1 - Enforcing and Challenging Patents (3 Hours)
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How to Read a Patent and Interpret Claims
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Patent Database Searching - checking IP status, identifying infringers and potential licencees
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Infringement of Patent Rights
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Enforcement and Challenging Patents in the UK, USA, Unitary Patent Court or before the European Patent Office
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Freedom to Operate - do you need to take a licence or are there other routes to FTO
DAY2 - Licensing (3 Hours)
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In-Licensing, out-licensing and cross-licensing patents & Know-How
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Key licensing provisions and considerations
Grant of licence - exclusive, non-exclusive, sole or cross?
Field, geographic, time restrictions?
Payment terms - minimum sales, royalties, milestones?
Arising IP, joint ownership?
Right to sub-license
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Licensing Considerations for European Unitary Patents
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Competition Law
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Licensing Know How
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Software
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FRAND and SEPs
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Other Agreements with Licensing provisions
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Negotiating Key Licensing Terms
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Common Pitfalls
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Group Exercises
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