Intellectual Property Issues in Commercial Transactions

Ensuring that your agreements optimise intellectual property rights, Intellectual Property Issues in Commercial Transactions: - Offers guidance on the legal and commercial issues you are likely to face in relation to the exploitation, licensing, disposal and management of IP rights - Provides you with analyses and business advice for drafting and disputing IP clauses in commercial transactions - Enables you to find solutions to IP issues quickly, as the topics are arranged by commercial transaction - Covers licensing in full - Explains the possible IP implications for acquisitions, disposals, joint co-existence agreements, franchise arrangements and the options for taking security over IP - Explains how you can centralise IP rights - Offers practical tips and solutions to common tax and competition issues - Provides examples from key European jurisdictions where the approach to IP in commercial transactions differs from the UK - Includes a number of commonly used sample documents in the book and on the CD-ROM, so you can refer to them and copy and paste relevant sections - Contains useful case studies to illustrate how to address IP issues in real transactions - Highlights key drafting and negotiating points