Drafting and Negotiating IP Licences

Exploitation of intellectual property rights is a lucrative commercial area in today's business world and this course is aimed at commercial practitioners involved in this area, covering the fundamental aspects and up-to-date case law and practice in granting intellectual property licences. The course will be of benefit as a refresher to experienced practitioners and will provide useful guidance to those relatively new to the discipline. It will examine real clauses and will cover:

• Tips for negotiating and drafting IP Licences
• Defining the grant of IP rights, in terms of exclusivity, duration, territory and sub-licences
• The effect of EU and UK competition law on IP licences
• Revenue collection under IP agreements - minimum guarantees, royalties and advances, generating royalty reports
• Management controls in IP licences including approval rights, marketing obligations and auditing accounts

Course Dates

19/09/2012 London	14:00 - 17:15 Venue Information
20/09/2012 Nottingham	14:00 - 17:15 Venue Information
27/09/2012 Leeds	14:00 - 17:15 Venue Information
28/09/2012 Manchester	14:00 - 17:15 Venue Information

Frank Jennings 
is a partner and head of the commercial team at DMH Stallard LLP. He specialises in technology law, intellectual property rights and commercial contracts. Frank qualified in-house with a computer games subsidiary of Sony, holds a Masters degree in information technology law and intellectual property and is chair of the Cloud Industry Forum’s Code Governance Board.