Licensing or transferring patents, software and know-how turns research investment into revenue and partnerships without giving up ownership. It also carries real risk: poorly defined scope, weak treatment of improvements, and missing confidentiality terms can erode the value of the very technology you are trying to monetise.
The core terms are scope (field of use, territory, exclusivity, sublicensing), the royalty model and audit rights, and the treatment of improvements and derivatives created on both sides. For technology and know-how, confidentiality and protection against reverse engineering matter as much as the licence grant itself.
Patent and technology licensing sits in the Commercialize stage of our 360 method and is part of our commercial contracts and transactions work. It builds on patent protection and patent strategy upstream, and the income it produces can feed the innovation income deduction on the tax side. The background sits in the Knowledge Base on structuring licensing agreements, and the drafting runs through our Contract Studio and Clause Library technology.
We structure the licence or transfer, value and protect the technology, draft and negotiate the terms, and coordinate with patent strategy and tax so the deal captures full value.
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