Intellectual Property is often a client's most valuable asset. Once a company has secured its IP rights, the owner of the rights may intend to use them to maximize his business with the related products. While there is more IP licensing going on than ever before, such arrangements become increasingly global and complicated and the underlying technologies are more and more complex. Therefore, licensing of intellectual property and know-how must be implemented carefully.

If you are interested in starting a new business, expanding an existing business, or improving the quality of the goods or services to improve your market position, in many situations, the licensing of IP rights such as patents, trademarks or copyrights is an effective tool for achieving these business goals. Commercial agreements that focus on the exploitation of IP rights may include all forms of licensing, distribution, sponsorship, franchising, co-marketing and co-promotion arrangements, R&D, collaboration and technology transfer agreements.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in negotiating, reviewing and drafting these arrangements and can prepare agreements for the development and licensing of your intellectual property and the related technology-based services. Our bestselling German-English collection of annotated sample contracts under European and German Law "License Agreements" has been published in the 5th edition and has even been translated into a number of languages, including Korean and Japanese (see publications).