Licensing

Licensing leverages the previous investment of the licensor and accelerates business opportunity for the licensee. Licensing can provide a real competitive and sustainable advantage for companies and entrepreneurs and clients recognize the importance of developing, procuring, exploiting, leveraging and protecting intellectual property rights from infringement. We assist licensors, licensees, joint venturers, investors and others in the use of niche licensing, technology escrows, security agreements, collateral assignments and other legal tools for financing and ensuring the continued financial viability of technology developers and licensors.

Licensing gives life to the global fashion industry, advertising, franchising, consumer packaged goods, off-the-shelf software (and e-business), information databases (even if the data is available freely from governmental sources) and subcontract (OEM) manufacturing. We work with independent patent agents when necessary for patents applications, oppositions and infringement disputes. We also collaborate with foreign trademark agents.

Some of the services we offer are:

• Policies and procedures for identifying, preserving and converting intellectual capital into it into copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade names, trade secrets, know-how and show-how.
• Technology development and co-development agreements for new products and services
• Joint venture agreements for exploitation of new technology-driven opportunities
• Intercompany licensing and services agreements between international affiliates of a single enterprise or holding company
• Special-purpose vehicles (SPV’s) for ownership and licensing
• Coordination with trademark and patent counsel for global registration programs
• Technology escrow arrangements for contingent licensing as a tool for supply chain management, business continuity planning and disaster recovery
• Knowledge management law
• Privacy law