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Protecting IP Across Your Clients' Range of Contracts (Recorded)

  • Training

  • 2 Hours
  • March 13, 2025
  • Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE)
  • ID: 6067742

Are IP rights hiding in your clients’ contracts? How to identify, assess, negotiate, and counsel your clients on IP rights across their range of contracts

Intellectual property rights are often a company’s most valuable assets yet are sometimes overlooked in contracts where IP is not the focus. This can leave companies vulnerable to inadvertent IP loss or liability. Common examples include employment agreements and M&A agreements. And even in contracts where IP is the focus such as patent assignments and license agreements small words can make a big difference if a dispute arises in the future.

In this new online seminar, we explain how to identify whether IP rights may be implicated in a variety of contracts, common terms and clauses to understand and negotiate, and traps to watch out for depending on which side you represent. Hear a well-rounded discussion of IP in contracts from various practice perspectives. Although designed for practitioners new to these areas, this program also provides enough depth for those with some experience.

Course Content

10:00 - 10:05 am - Welcome and Introduction
Andrea B. Reed, Esq.,
Lando & Anastasi LLP, Boston

10:05 - 10:25 am - IP Definitions and Default Ownership Rules
Andrea B. Reed, Esq.,
Lando & Anastasi LLP, Boston

Tavish M. Brown, Esq.,
Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP, Boston

Michael J. Douglas, Esq.,
Gennari Aronson LLP, Needham Heights

10:25 - 10:35 am - Patent Assignment and License Agreements
Panel

10:35 - 10:55 am - Employee Agreements (Non-competes, Confidentiality and Non-disclosure Agreements, Non-solicits, Cooperation Provisions)
Panel

10:55 - 11:15 am - Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants
Panel

11:15 - 11:35 am - Protection of IP in Joint Development, Collaboration, Manufacturing, and Other Commercial Contracts
Panel

11:35 - 11:55 am - IP Provisions in M&A Agreements, Including Indemnification and Representations and Warranties in an Acquisition
Panel

11:55 - 12:00 pm - "Ask the Experts" Q&A Session and Key Takeaways
Panel

Speakers

Chair

Andrea B. Reed, Esq.,
Lando & Anastasi LLP, Boston

Faculty

Tavish M. Brown, Esq.,
Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP, Boston

Michael J. Douglas, Esq.,
Gennari Aronson LLP, Needham Heights