We work with clients to negotiate, document, review and manage arrangements relating to intellectual property. Examples of the types of deals we assist clients with include:
Insights about Commercial IP, deals and contracts
When a company splits in two, one side usually ends up renting what it used to own. Which side, and on what terms, is decided in the separation workstream that gets the least board attention: the allocation of patents, brands, data and know-how. That allocation…
October was a month about the gap between owning a right and controlling an outcome. A valid patent on a drug’s mechanism that left its owner with no market. A licence signed years ago that now decides which defence contracts a company may bid for.…
Many companies treat IP ownership as something settled after a contract is won. However, a buyer large enough to set the terms can make ownership a condition of bidding. When that happens, the licence you signed five years ago quietly decides which contracts you are…
The price of frontier AI capability is falling towards zero. The consequence for an IP strategy is not that AI has become cheaper. It is that anything you thought you were buying at the model layer, you are not buying exclusively. In July a Chinese…
The patent is rarely where the money is decided. The licence is. Three IP developments from the past week make that point, and each turns on terms settled, or left unsettled, long before anyone reached a court. In the United Kingdom, the government has published…
Adding AI to a product is not a strategy. Moving to where the value is going is. And every real move changes what your company controls, which makes it an IP strategy decision before it is a technology one. An article in I by IMD…
