Drafting Patent and Know-How Licencing Agreements

Mark Anderson, Solicitor and Managing Partner, Anderson Law

Mark Anderson is a solicitor in private practice and a visiting lecturer at University College London. He has over 30 years' experience of advising on intellectual property and commercial transactions. He is a member of the Law Society's Intellectual Property Working Party and led the IPWP's submissions to the European Commission on the 2014 Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation.

Part I: Introduction to law and practice affecting patent and know-how licence agreements
1. General legal issues affecting international IP transactions
2. IP laws affecting transactions
3. Commercial law and practice affecting PKHLAs
4. Other selected areas of law affecting PKHLAs
Part II: The terms of patent and know-how licence agreements
5. Overview of patent and know-how licence agreements (PKHLAs)
6. Parties
7. Recitals
8. Definitions and IP Schedules
9. Grant clause
10. Information and services provisions
11. Payments and payment terms
12. Commercialisation obligations
13. Patent protection and dealing with infringements
14. Warranties, liability and indemnities
15. Duration, termination and consequences of termination
16. Law and jurisdiction
17. Boilerplate clauses
18. Signature blocks and methods of signature