exploitation experience
- Assisting an international petroleum business on its worldwide licensing arrangements, specifically advising on arrangements for Portugal, Australia and Israel.
- Advising the first NHS Trust in Wales on its spinout of existing therapy business on areas including IP, corporate law, property, employment, pensions and public law.
- Developing technology transfer arrangements for India, Iran and Brazil on behalf of the world’s largest welding and cutting business.
- Advising a university in connection with the licensing of a bio chemical assay to a spin out company and drafting the appropriate documentation.
- Drafting sponsorship agreements governing the benefits granted to sponsors and protection of a Formula 1 team’s brand. We also drafted merchandising agreements for the team, both in respect of the Team's official merchandise and their right to use their sponsors’ brands.
- Drafting publishing agreements for books and electronic publications
- Reviewing and drafting clinical trial agreements for NHS trusts, universities and pharmaceutical businesses
- Advising on the IP provisions in national procurement contracts offered by the Department of Health
- Advising and negotiating on a joint commercialisation agreement between a university and a cancer charity.
- Advising upon the options available for the exploitation of a food outlet concept by means of
- Preparing patent licences, assignments and research and development agreements for a medical diagnostics company
- Drafting inter-group technology transfer agreements for an international PLC.
- Advising a well known chef, a safety equipment manufacturer, and a motor vehicle breakdown company on agency arrangements for finding merchandising partners, including drafting agency agreements and negotiating complex manufacturing distributorship agreements and stringent brand protection and product recall provisions
- Acting for many software companies in relation to their licensing and distributorship arrangements.