Fact Sheet Commercialising Intellectual Property: Assignment agreements

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Fact Sheet
Commercialising Intellectual Property: Assignment 
agreements
 
July 2015
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Introduction ......................................................................................................... 2
 
1.
 
What is an IP assignment? ............................................................................... 3
 
2.
 
What is not an assignment ............................................................................... 3
 
2.1
 
Licence agreement .................................................................................... 3
 
2.2
 
Assignment of contractual rights and obligations ........................................... 3
 
2.3
 
Invention disclosure .................................................................................. 4
 
3.
 
Advantages and disadvantages ......................................................................... 4
 
4.
 
Steps to take before concluding an assignment agreement ................................... 5
 
4.1
 
Considering non-disclosure agreements ....................................................... 5
 
4.2
 
Performing an IP due diligence ................................................................... 6
 
5.
 
How to establish an assignment ........................................................................ 7
 
5.1
 
Form ....................................................................................................... 7
 
5.2
 
Payment .................................................................................................. 7
 
5.3
 
Identification of the intellectual property ...................................................... 7
 
5.4
 
Warranties ............................................................................................... 7
 
5.5
 
Governing law .......................................................................................... 8
 
5.6
 
Registration of the assignment in the competent Intellectual Property office ..... 8
 
Useful Resources ................................................................................................... 9
 
 
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This fact sheet was initially published in August 2014 and updated in July 2015.

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