Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy, Negotiation, Forms

Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy, Negotiation, Forms

<p>Now in the <i>Second Edition</i>, <b>Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy • Negotiation • Forms</b> has been completely updated and significantly expanded to include additional strategies for successfully monetizing a patent portfolio.</p> <p>Featuring hundreds of sample licensing clauses and provisions, <b>Patent Licensing and Selling</b>, <i>Second Edition</i> 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.</p> <p>The author helps you:</p> <ul> <li>Avoid terms that trigger delays and disputes</li> <li>Grant exclusive patent licenses and successfully buy or sell a patent portfolio</li> <li>Retain the right to choose which markets to enter first</li> <li>Swiftly bring licensed or purchased products to market</li> <li>Protect against infringement of licensed or purchased patents</li> <li>Set license duration and termination guidelines</li> <li>Maintain the confidentiality of agreements</ul> </p>It also provides direction on such other mandatory topics in a patent purchase agreement as:</p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Purchase price and payment requirements</li> <li>Taxes </li> <li>Closing requirements</ul> </p> <p>In addition <b>Patent Licensing and Selling</b>, <i>Second Edition</i> includes a complete discussion of the recently decided U.S. Supreme Court case, <i>Bowman v. Monsanto</i>, which held that patent exhaustion does not permit a farmer to reproduce patent¬ed seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holders permission.</p> <p>Updated at least once a year, <b>Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy • Negotiation • Forms</b> is a vital handbook for patent practitioners and other intellectual property attorneys, corporate counsel, corporate executives, patent officials, and inventors.</p>