Course overview
This intensive one-day training course explains what you need to know and do to get the best commercial results from your R&D and joint venture agreements, whether they are operating in the UK or across borders.
When you are embarking on a project which is in partnership with another organisation, be they academia or industry, both parties will need to agree on the thorny topics of IP ownership, other common provisions and the type of collaboration structure that will suit them both. The allocation of risk and ancillary aspects such as confidentiality, material transfer agreements and heads of terms also have to be wrestled with.
The expert trainer covers the following key topics from a UK and international perspective:
- IP ownership and rights of use
- Sole, joint and segmented ownership and rights of use
- Competition law and the impact of Brexit
- Software agreements
- Types of party and collaboration structure
- Ancillary agreements
- Interactive case study workshop
CPD Hours: 6
Course Content
- Day 1
- Module 1: Project nature/scope and parties’ roles and responsibilities
- IP ownership, rights of use and other issues
- Module 2: Other common provisions in international contracts
- Competition law
- Software agreements
- Module 3: Types of party and their priorities
- Types of collaboration structure
- Module 4: Ancillary agreements
- Final questions
Speakers
Richard Brady
Richard 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.
