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Patent Licensing: A Checklist
Intellectual property portfolio management is an essential part of any tech company's business strategy. Part of the management strategy must include implementation of an appropriate patent licensing program. An effective licensing program can be the difference between a patent portfolio that churns out profits for your company and one that becomes a profits sinkhole.
The following is a basic checklist summary of various factors that must be considered in determining how to structure your patent licensing program. Considerations that will be addressed include 1) the overall business strategy and how that impacts your company's decisions to license or assign its technologies, 2) factors surrounding assigning vs. licensing your patents, 3) factors surrounding licensing your patents exclusively vs. non-exclusively, 4) dealing with “know-how,” 5) fee structures for your licenses, and 6) factors relating to foreign licensing.
Overall Business Strategy
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?