In this exciting age of startups, the market is brimming with opportunities for individuals and entities alike to invest in emerging companies. Today’s rapid rate of technology development justifies ...

On this Ropes & Gray podcast, licensing and collaboration partner Hannah England and antitrust partner Lisa Kaltenbrunner discuss how EU antitrust rules impact non-competes and other exclusivity ...

In almost every license agreement, the use should be on a nonexclusive basis so as not to prevent the artist from licensing the song for other uses. Normally this is a given, but sometimes licensors ...

An AI tool to step in and read the fine print An AI tool to step in and read the fine print is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online ...

The limitation of liability is one of the most important clauses in a software license agreement because it limits the amount and types of damages one party can recover from the other party. For ...

A common problem in interpreting long-term license agreements is considering whether the language granting the license encompasses later-developed technologies and other new uses that did not exist at ...

It continually amazes me that many business folks who negotiate tons of IP license agreements, fail to understand the difference between covenants, representations, and warranties that are “standard” ...

This License Agreement (hereafter this “Agreement”) is entered into between the Trustees of the California State University, acting by and through California State University, Sacramento (hereafter ...

The distinctions between licensing and purchasing a franchise are numerous and important. To sum them up, it may be best to say that a business is franchised while the products and memorabilia for ...