Product Description: Drafting Patent License Agreements illustrates the growing importance of intellectual property transactions to business and the resulting attention such transactions receive in legislative, regulatory, and judicial areas. The new Eighth Edition tracks and discusses-clause by clause-all the critical components of patent and technology license agreements as well as non-disclosure agreements and collaboration agreements...read more

Product Description: This book streamlines for students of varied backgrounds and expertise the range of licensing models available and the framework for understanding what clients want and need to accomplish. The book's extensive drafting exercises provide students the opportunity to develop their skills...read more

Product Description: A guide through the minefield of court decisions that have systematically eroded the scope and validity of patents Main Volume Information Drafting Patents for Litigation and Licensing helps practitioners draft the broadest possible patent that can sustain a validity challenge by synthesizing and applying lessons from the case law...read more

Understand all the legal issues that affect patent license agreements—and easily incorporate them into every transaction you handle! Whether you handle one patent license agreement a year or one hundred, you’ll save time, money, and aggravation with the Fifth Edition of Drafting Patent License Agreements. In concise chapters, Drafting Patent License Agreements, Fifth Edition tracks and discusses—clause by clause—all the critical components of a licensing agreement. You’ll find concrete examples and advice on virtually any matter that pertains to negotiating, drafting, and administering a patent license agreement. Containing page after page of sample text and detailed commentary, this practical handbook is your best tool for eliminating uncertainty and tilting the odds for a successful patent license agreement in your favor! The Fifth Edition has been completely revised to reflect legal developments that have occurred since the last edition. Significant revisions include: --the concept of sublicense and the rights and obligations of the licensor --an expanded discussion of the covenant not to sue and the distinctions over nonexclusive licenses --a discussion of "reach through royalties" that is of interest to the healthcare community The Fifth Edition also includes a new chapter regarding joint development agreements, providing guidance and sample provisions for allocating rights to inventions developed pursuant to such joint development arrangements and for treating rights to pre-existing technology. The authors identify problematic language and show you how to tailor contract language to accomplish your goals. You get: --valuable insights into the legal and business aspects of patent contracts --analysis of significant legal issues affecting your agreement --discussion of foreign agreements and their unique considerations --almost 200 sample clauses and forms including sample license agreements, confidential disclosure agreements, employment agreements, and more—all on CD in Microsoft® Word 2000* format for your convenience --table of authorities and index *Microsoft and Microsoft Word are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

Product Description: <p> <b>Licensing Intellectual Property: Law and Application</b> is a streamlined and highly accessible casebook on the law of licensing and the application of licensing in practice. The authors painstakingly cover all aspects of licensing from the global: <i>Why is licensing the predominant transaction model for ideas and information? Why and how do social policy decisions limit creative legal practice solutions? to the particular: What are the most common licensing provisions? What are the issues in various types of intellectual property licensing? </i> </p> <p> <b>This exciting new casebook is imminently teachable and can be used in courses of varying length...read more

Product Description: Understand all the legal issues that affect patent license agreements—and easily incorporate them into every transaction you handle! Whether you handle one patent license agreement a year or one hundred, you’ll save time, money, and aggravation with the Fifth Edition of Drafting Patent License Agreements...read more

Product Description: Written by two highly experienced attorneys, Patent License Agreements Line by Line is perhaps the most up-to-date work on this vital subject. Each day innovation plays a larger role in our lives, and in the success or failure of business...read more

Product Description: In today’s fast-paced and ultra-competitive high-tech environment, an effectively managed patent licensing program is a must. The Second Edition of Drafting Technology Patent License Agreements shows you how to achieve one. This valuable resource covers all of the legal and business transactional issues you are likely to encounter during the drafting and negotiation of patent licensing agreements...read more

Product Description: If you are an inventor or product developer, it’s a huge mistake to try to patent an invention yourself―unless you have a clear understanding of good patent writing. The Patent Writer explains in detail how to write effective patent applications...read more

Product Description: Transferring Invention Rights: Effective and Enforceable Contracts, a new, comprehensive treatise, provides practical guidance to general contract law specifically geared to intellectual property, licenses, assignments, and other invention-related transactions...read more

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Product Description: Licensing Intellectual Property 1998 is both a companion to the main volume and sold on its own as a resource on international law and licensing. It describes the antitrust and competition policy limits on licensing practices in the European Union and Japan and summarizes the different governmental enforcement approaches, and the different legal limits on licensing provisions in the European Union, Japan, and the United States...read more

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