IP Licensing and Transfer -

IP Licensing and Transfer

Sutherland attorneys regularly advise clients in licensing and other intellectual property transfers in a variety of circumstances. Our experience includes negotiation and preparation or due diligence evaluation of license agreements, assignments, development agreements, options, supply agreements, manufacturing agreements, teaming arrangements, technology sharing agreements, technology or product evaluation agreements, procurement agreements, outsourcing agreements and other transactions involving patents, trade secrets, know-how, trademarks and copyrights. We frequently advise clients in the context of acquisitions, sales, purchases, joint developments, licenses and litigation. With our prosecution capability, we can also set up and maintain any patent and trademark programs that result from transactions.

We work closely with the firm's corporate group and have recently advised in a number of transactions including:

Allied Capital Corporation's acquisitions, including Gibson Associates, Axxess Technologies and Sunsource;
Applied Ceramics' Joint Development Agreements with Monsanto and Westvaco;
Beaulieu of America's sale of its rug business to Springs Industries;
BNFL's acquisition of the nuclear businesses of ABB;
BNFL's acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Company;
BresaGen, Inc.'s License Agreements;
CMI's sale of certain businesses to Westpoint Stevens;
The CocaCola Company's acquisition of certain IP assets relating to IMI Cornelius technology;
First Data Corporation's acquisitions, including Card Services International, PaySys, Taxware, Achex, ATX Forms, Bidpay, Tasq Technologies, Paypoint, Lawnet/Ecommercegroup and Brokat Technologies AG;
GeoVax, Inc.'s License Agreements;
GMP Companies' sale of certain assets;
National Institutes of Health's License Agreements;
Southeast Paper's Manufacturing Licenses and Joint Development Agreements;
USFilter's sale of certain businesses of Culligan and Everpure; and
USFilter's evaluation of Sensicore Technology.