Technology Licensing
The Life Sciences Practice regularly assists our clients in drafting and negotiating
complex license and technology transfer agreements. Examples of agreements we
regularly prepare include:
- Strategic alliance agreements
- Sponsored research agreements
- Employment agreements
- Compensation agreements
- Confidentiality agreements
- Manufacturing agreements
- Supply agreements
- Collaboration agreements
- Distribution agreements
- Material transfer agreements
- Joint commercialization agreements
Spencer Fane attorneys also assist our clients in developing comprehensive
licensing strategies that target competitive industries and seek to optimize
royalties and license fees. Such strategies identify alternative uses, market
efficiencies and potential obstacles to the use of the technology. We regularly
conduct freedom-to-operate and competitive intelligence analyses to aid in the
evaluation, structuring, drafting and negotiation of a license or technology
transfer agreement.
In addition, the Spencer Fane litigation team regularly advises our clients
with respect to disputes that may arise under such agreements. Regardless of
the context of the license negotiations — whether adversarial patent license
negotiations to avoid litigation or friendly business transactions — Spencer
Fane has the experience to be a valuable partner in your licensing transactions.