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Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property

Apr. 18, 2018

Drafting patent settlements and licenses: 5 rules

Patent licenses are often negotiated and agreed to at a high level. Below are five default rules worth remembering.

Nicholas A. Brown

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Greenberg Traurig LLP

Phone: (415) 655-1271

Email: brownn@gtlaw.com

Nicholas focuses on patent and trade secret litigation.

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Drafting patent settlements and licenses: 5 rules
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This column appeared in the April 18 TOP INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWYERS special report.

Courts have established a variety of default rules for patent licenses, and knowing those default rules can have important practical value in negotiating and drafting patent agreements. Including an express provision is often preferable to relying on a default rule, and is almost always better for avoiding misunderstanding. Nonetheless, in practice that is n...

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