Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy, Negotiation, Forms

Now in the Second Edition, Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy • Negotiation • Forms has been completely updated and significantly expanded to include additional strategies for successfully monetizing a patent portfolio. Featuring hundreds of sample licensing clauses and provisions, Patent Licensing and Selling, Second Edition shows you how to draft fair and litigation-free patent license and patent purchase agreements that serve your clients’ interests, satisfy other parties, and shield clients from legal exposure.The author helps you:•Avoid terms that trigger delays and disputes•Grant exclusive patent licenses and successfully buy or sell a patent portfolio•Retain the right to choose which markets to enter first•Swiftly bring licensed or purchased products to market•Protect against infringement of licensed or purchased patents•Set license duration and termination guidelines•Maintain the confidentiality of agreementsIt also provides direction on such other mandatory topics in a patent purchase agreement as:•Representations and warranties of both the buyer and the seller, including authority to sell, title to the patents, the validity and enforceability of the patents, any pre-existing licenses or other obligations affecting the patents, and notice of any other legal proceeding that might affect rights to the patents•Purchase price and payment requirements•Taxes•Closing requirementsIn addition Patent Licensing and Selling, Second Edition includes a complete discussion of the recently decided U.S. Supreme Court case, Bowman v. Monsanto, which held that patent exhaustion does not permit a farmer to reproduce patent­ed seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holder’s permission. Updated at least once a year, Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy • Negotiation • Forms is a vital handbook for patent practitioners and other intellectual property attorneys, corporate counsel, corporate executives, patent officials, and inventors.