Structuring Software and Technology Licensing and Development Agreements
Crafting Provisions to Allocate Risk, Avoid Common Pitfalls, and Minimize Liability
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Recorded event now available
This CLE webinar will provide guidance to counsel for crafting technology licensing and development agreements. The panel will discuss key clauses and offer best practices for structuring the agreements and avoiding common pitfalls.
Description
Companies or individual inventors often use or adapt existing technologies to create new products. To take the products to market, they must enter licensing agreements with the owner of the preexisting software or technology.
Licensing and development agreements should include key provisions such as ownership, indemnification, liability, and payment structure. The agreements must clearly identify the technology that is being licensed and define the scope of the license.
Counsel to the technology owner and counsel for the licensee or developer must understand the critical elements that should be included in a license and the common challenges. Counsel must be prepared to effectively craft and negotiate the agreement in the client’s best interest.
Listen as our authoritative panel examines software and technology licensing and development agreements, discussing key clauses such as scope of licenses, indemnification, development milestones, and rights to improvements to the technology. The panel will offer best practices for structuring the agreements and avoiding common pitfalls.
Outline
- Technology licensing and developments agreements
- Defining scope of the license
- Representations and warranties
- Limitations on liability
- Indemnification
- Development milestones
- Ownership and rights to improvements
- Intellectual property
- Confidentiality
- Overcoming licensing agreement challenges
- Impact on traditional software development
- Best practices for structuring licensing agreements
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the key contract terms to include in technology licensing and development agreements?
- What methods can be used to effectively assign ownership and development rights?
- What are the critical steps to minimize confidentiality risks in licenses?
- What strategies can be used to resolve commonly disputed issues in technology licensing agreements?
Faculty
Paul H. Arne,
Partner
Morris Manning & Martin, Atlanta
He represents technology companies and large end users, with a particular emphasis on complex, outsourcing matters, international transactions, open source software, privacy, university technology transfer, and revenue recognition issues. He is also involved with development, manufacturing, and distribution involving medical devices.
Paul C. Jorgensen,
Principal
Jorgensen Law Firm, Washington, D.C.
He has successfully prosecuted many U.S. and international trademark, copyright, domain name applications, and has designed and negotiated hundreds of successful contracts and licenses. He counsels clients on domestic and international trademark, copyright, trade name, trade secret and domain name matters, and has designed and negotiated hundreds of successful contracts and licenses
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