Patent Licensing and Selling: Strategy, Negotiation, Forms

By Mark S. Holmes

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402420641
• ISBN13: 9781402420641
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 1106 Pages
• Weight: 5.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.9" x 2.8" x 7.5"