Licensing
Ober|Kaler’s intellectual property lawyers have extensive experience in drafting and negotiating license agreements for the in-licensing, out-licensing and cross-licensing of a wide range of intellectual property rights.
This experience allows our lawyers to craft and negotiate specialized license agreements that conform to the specific needs of our clients, such as hybrid license agreements involving multiple categories of intellectual property and cloud-computing (e.g., SaaS) agreements. Through these agreements, we provide practical and creative solutions to licensing challenges, including the protection of trade secrets, development of creative consideration/royalty provisions, and effective termination provisions.
We represent both licensors and licensees across many industries, from pharmaceutical, medical devices and health care informatics, to television, video games and digital media platforms.
Our licensing services include the preparation of:
- National, worldwide and geographically restricted license agreements
- Distribution and sales license agreements
- ASP and reselling agreements
- Patent licenses
- Trademark licenses
- Copyright licenses
- Hybrid licenses and cross-licenses
- Cooperative research agreements
- Consulting agreements
- Joint development agreements
- End-user license agreements
- Confidentiality agreements
- Manufacturing agreements
- Misuse and antitrust concerns in licensing
- Open source issues
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