Intellectual property licensing and transactions : theory and practice /

"Intellectual property transactions underlie large segments of the global economy, from pharmaceuticals to computing, entertainment to digital content. This resource combines practical contract drafting and negotiation skills with substantive legal doctrine in the rapidly growing area of intell...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Contreras, Jorge L. (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • The business of licensing
  • Ownership and assignment of intellectual property
  • The nature of an intellectual property license
  • Implied licenses and unwritten transactions
  • Confidentiality and pre-license negotiations
  • License grant and scope
  • Exclusive licenses
  • Financial terms
  • Development, allocation, and management of IP
  • Representations, warranties, and indemnification
  • Litigation-related clauses : enforcement, settlement, and dispute resolution
  • Term, termination, and breach
  • Other licensing terms: the "Boilerplate"
  • Academic technology transfer
  • Trademark and franchise licensing
  • Music licensing
  • Consumer and online licensing
  • Software, data, and the cloud
  • Public licenses : open source, creative commons and IP pledges
  • Technical standards : fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (frand) licensing
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency issues
  • Estoppel and no challenge clauses
  • First sale and exhaustion
  • Intellectual property misuse
  • Antitrust and competition issues
  • Intellectual property pools and aggregation.