Intellectual Property Licensing and Transactions

Jorge L. Contreras is Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. He has over thirty years of experience in intellectual property transactions and licensing, both as a practitioner at a large international law firm and as a leading legal academic.

• Introduction; Part I. Introduction to Intellectual Property Licensing: 1. The Business of Licensing; 2. Ownership and Assignment of Intellectual Property; 3. The Nature of an Intellectual Property License; 4. Implied Licenses and Unwritten Transactions; 5. Confidentiality and Pre-License Negotiations; Part II. License Building Blocks: 6. License Grant and Scope; 7. Exclusive Licenses; 8. Financial Terms; 9. Development, Allocation and Management of IP; 10. Representations, Warranties and Indemnification; 11. Litigation-Related Clauses: Enforcement, Settlement and Dispute Resolution; 12. Term, Termination and Breach; 13. Other Licensing Terms: The 'Boilerplate'; Part III. Industry and Context Specific Licensing Topics: 14. Academic Technology Transfer; 15. Trademark and Franchise Licensing; 16. Music Licensing; 17. Consumer and Online Licensing; 18. Software, Data and the Cloud; 19. Public Licenses: Open Source, Creative Commons and IP Pledges; 20. Technical Standards: Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (Frand ) Licensing; Part IV. Advanced Licensing Topics: 21. Bankruptcy and Insolvency Issues; 22. Estoppel and No Challenge Clauses; 23. First Sale and Exhaustion; 24. Intellectual Property Misuse; 25. Antitrust and Competition Issues; 26. Intellectual Property Pools and Aggregation.