Duration
7h
Schedule
Day 1: 14:00 - 17:30 | Day 2: 9:00 - 12:30
Level
Expertise
reference
S01P029
In English
Program
Objectives
Target audience
Details
Licensing strategies
- What is meant by a licensing strategy?
- Licensing-In/-Out/Cross and Patent Pools
- To license or not – Why licensing?
- Understanding the parties & interests at stake
Preparation of the proposal
- Non-disclosure agreements – confidentiality
- Letter of Intent / MOU
The anatomy of a licensing agreement – Typical clauses
- Exclusive, non exclusive, crosslicense
- Duties of licensee and licensor
- Identification of parties – Definitions
- Grant – Restrictions – Technical assistance
- Indemnification – Improvements
- Confidentiality – publicity
- Termination – Alternative Dispute Resolution
Licensing negotiation practices
- Prepare for negotiations: terms to be avoided and parts to negotiate, negotiation team, assessment of the positions
- Royalties and upfront royalties
- Different negotiation tactics
- Specific national practices
License Drafting Workshop: Drafting international technology licensing agreements
- Preparation of a negotiation agreement
- Example of licensing agreement
Post-licensing management
- How do you prevent and / or manage future disputes?
- Renegotiation, audit, litigation
- Identifying the different licensing strategies.
- Providing the key features of a contract, the validity conditions and how to structure them to prevent or manage dispute resolution after the contract signature.
- Understanding strategic and contractual issues raised by the entry into licensing agreements with academic institutions or companies.
- Getting the key elements to take into consideration for a win-win negotiation.
- Knowing the best ways to deal with disputes when deals go wrong.
Business development managers,licensing executives, IP practitioners,contract managers, technology transfermanagers, lawyers.
RequirementsHaving experience in technologylicensing.
InstructorsIP Management Consultant.
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