Drafting Patent License Agreements Book

1	Some premises, limitations, and legal principles	1
2	Express agreements : nonexclusive licenses, nonassertion agreements, and exclusive licenses	15
3	Specific types of licenses	39
4	Commentary on principal causes of uncertainty in contract language	51
5	The opening part of the agreement	59
6	Definitions	67
7	The granting clause; elements of the grant; definition of licensed subject matter	75
8	Reservations and exceptions	93
9	Licenses under improvements; releases for patent infringement	99
10	Royalties, reports, and payments	107
11	Protection for a nonexclusive licensee	139
12	Transferability of rights and obligations pertaining to licenses	151
13	Validity and construction of patents	167
14	Representations and warranties and negation of implications	173
15	Indemnification	179
16	Assumption by licensee of responsibility for prosecution of patent applications of the licensor	183
17	Integration, modification, choice of law, arbitration, notification, patent marking, severability, force majeure	187
18	Term and termination of the agreement	209
19	Settlement of patent litigation	215
20	Execution of agreements : problems of authority and proof	225
21	Agreements concerning the sale or other transfer of unpatented technological values	237
22	Foreign patent license agreements	261
23	Selected competition law issues : misuse situations and multipatent licensing	277
24	Implied licenses	295
25	Collaboration agreements	317
App. A	Some fundamentals of U.S. patent law and practice	341
App. B	Assignment	347
App. C	Simple license agreement	353
App. D	Nonexclusive license agreements	355
App. E	Defined field patent license agreement	371
App. F	Patent and technical information license agreement	381
App. G	Confidential disclosure agreements	391
App. H	Forms for dealing with outside submissions	399
App. I	Employment agreement	405
App. J	Simple collaboration agreement	411