BUSINESS LAW
Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is vital to businesses across all sectors. Securing your IP safeguards your business.
Licensing and Commercialisation
All IP you use in your business falls into two categories:
- Your own IP, which you can commercialise directly
- Someone else's IP, which you need a licence to use
Either way, we start with your commercial strategy and goals to craft clear, practical and commercially sound agreements for your business:
- Exclusive and non-exclusive licences
- Territory and field-of-use restrictions
- Royalty and revenue sharing models
- Sublicensing and transfer rights
research & development agreements
Combining forces in a joint venture or bringing in expert independent contractors can provide a powerful boost to your R&D programme. But who owns the results? What each party use them for?
We’ll help you work out the commercial deal with your collaborators and document it in concise and transparent terms:
- Ownership of newly created IP (foreground IP)
- Cross-licensing and protection of pre-existing IP (background IP)
- Rights to use and exploit jointly developed knowledge
Outsourced Manufacturing
The manufacture of goods can involve a mix of intellectual property rights, trade secrets and regulatory requirements.
We can help you outsource your manufacturing with agreements that:
- License or sublicence necessary IP rights
- Protect trade secrets from misuse
- Restrict the development of competing products
- Assign ownership of IP from newly developed improvements
franchise agreements
At its core, franchising is about licensing the use of IP and business models: branding, systems and operational know-how.
Working with both franchisors and franchisees, we negotiate and draft detailed franchise agreements that can:
- Set rules to provide consistency in brand use and customer experience
- Establish sales targets
- Set territorial or customer segment boundaries
- Safeguard proprietary processes and know-how
