Intellectual Property Management - Best Practices

Don't Negotiate Another Technology Agreement Without This IP Guidebook. Avoid Dreadful Drafting.

This IP management and transactional guidebook integrates business and legal principles and is designed to assist you to maximize value from the strategic protection, collaborative development, transfer, and sale of technology and intellectual property. Written in a straightforward manner for lawyers and business people, veteran IP lawyer John Ramsay sets out best practices for reviews of the protection and management processes used for emerging technology, for the negotiation and design of technology transfers, and for the drafting of the resulting agreements.

Features and Benefits

• An excellent easy-to-use practical guide for you when auditing the management of patents, trade secrets and intellectual capital generally, for you when negotiating and designing IP transactions, and for you when drafting the related agreements
• This best practices manual can be used on an as-needed basis; you can readily get guidance for your specific transactional issues
• Part One of this book provides guidelines and analysis of effective due diligence and best management practices, reviews of trade secrecy management and of patent strategies
• Part Two uses Dreadfully Drafted clauses to teach how to negotiate and draft well reasoned clauses that clearly allocate business and legal risks, such as Non-Disclosure Provisions, Grant Clauses, IP Warranties, and Improvements in Collaborations
• Part Three contains useful checklists to follow when negotiating or drafting IP agreements, and annotated sample agreements, including a model patent license agreement and a model software license agreement, that are cross-referenced to Part Two's "Dreadful Drafting" chapters for easy access

Who Should Read This Book?

• IP/IT lawyers and corporate counsel - advise your clients on the assessment and allocation of business and legal risks and negotiate and draft IP agreements to maximize value and minimize risks; draw on tested agreements that clearly state the business and legal issues and clearly allocate the related risks
• Business people and IP owners - understand the legal principles and how they apply to your business so that you can fully participate in the negotiation and drafting of IP Transactions. The principles cited in this guidebook apply to IP owners from a range of industries, including the pharmaceutical, industrial and hi-tech industry sectors
• University Technology Transfer Offices and IP licensing professionals - learn how to perform Best Practice Audits and to prudently negotiate and design technology transfer agreements

What Others Say:

Brian Lee, Patent Prosecution Lawyer, Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson, LLP, Vancouver: "Intellectual Property Management - Best Practices is an excellent resource for IP practitioners, technology executives and IP lawyers. The book is written in a refreshing manner that provides practical, useful advice for executives and their advisors to make informed decisions involving their organization's IP. The book provides straight-to-the-point tools for the IP lawyer in the form of detailed checklists, clause by clause analyses and annotated precedents. Reading John Ramsay's book should enable both the technology executive and his or her IP advisor to work together at a highly functional and sophisticated level. In this sense, I think this is a unique publication in Canada and essential reading for those involved in IP."

Robert Goldman, Intellectual Property Strategist and Valuator, Principal, Charles River Associates, Chicago: Winston Churchill wrote, "All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." In this book, John Ramsay is the wise man that teaches us using the Dreadful Drafter's mistakes. Business executives and attorneys involved in IP management and technology transfer will benefit from this book as both a text and reference. Those who have had the privilege of learning from John first hand will be glad to know that his style, wit and practical advice translate well into written form."