Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy, Negotiation, Forms (October 2016 Edition)

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 agreements

It 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 requirements

In 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 patent¬ed seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holders 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.