Key topics to be covered at this seminar:
- Pitfalls and ambiguities to avoid
- Project management
- Achieving precision regarding IP definitions, ownership and use
- Project and relationship management
- The academia-industry dichotomy
Why you should attend
Attend this comprehensive one-day seminar to:
- Ensure you have the practical mastery to give you the edge in crucial IP agreements
- Analyse and discuss the key aspects of patent/know-how licences and R&D collaborations
- Assess the areas where things can and do go wrong using draft agreements
- Take away practical advice that will aid you in your day-to-day role
- Compare experiences with delegates from across Europe
The programme includes practical exercises using draft agreements to exemplify the points discussed and help embed learning.
Certification:
- CPD: 6 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
Agenda
Welcome and introduction
- Setting the scene - licences in the morning, R&D collaborations in the afternoon
- Each session will be based on a real contract, covering what the parties wanted out of the arrangement, why key clauses were in there and the problems they encountered, legal, technical and relationship-wise, when implementing the contract
- Lessons learned by the parties and their advisors from each scenario
Module 1: Patent/know-how licenses
Key defined terms and how to avoid traps or ambiguity
- Regarding:
- Territory
- Field
- Exclusivity
Key financial terms including ‘royalties’, ‘offsets’ and ‘milestones’
- The key aspects of provisions covering milestones and royalties
- Scope of licence and non-competition provisions
- Liability and dispute resolution
Common pitfalls
- Defining the licensed IP
- Licences of improvements
- IP warranties
- Dispute resolution
Module 2: R&D collaborations
Key clauses in the contract
- Each party’s aims
- Allocation of responsibility
- Background IP applied
- Plans for Foreground IP
Problems encountered
- Role of the grantor
- Project coordination
- Letting problems fester
- Diverging agendas
- The solution
Common pitfalls
- Confidentiality vs publication
- Patenting vs sharing
- Herding diverse stakeholders
- Change of control or key personnel
- National idiosyncrasies, Germany and China examples
Speakers
Richard Brady,
British Legal CentreRichard Brady is a lawyer who has spent many years working in Europe and the Middle East in the legal, financial and insurance arenas. He has a degree from Cambridge College of Teachers (2005) on Teaching English and founded the British Legal Centre in 2010. He has taught professional legal skills in many companies around the World, including Deloitte and Touche, EY, White & Case, Baker McKenzie, Shalakany Law Office, DLA Piper and Clifford Chance. He has also conducted live training courses at legal departments of corporations, including: Shell Oil, Master Foods, Air Liquide, DAMAC (Dubai), ENKA (Turkey) EMBRACO/Whirlpool (Brazil), and Mowasalat (Qatar).
His specialist areas include contract law, contract drafting, M&A in the pharma industry, arbitration law and FIDIC contracts.
Who Should Attend
- Patent attorneys
- In-house lawyers
- Private practice lawyers
- Contracts managers
- Technology transfer managers
- Others involved in patent/know-how licences and R&D collaborations
