Licensing Transactions in Intellectual Property

Overview

Gain practical insights into how major global players deal with intellectual property issues every day. Develop strategies for transacting intellectual property across borders and legal systems and hone your negotiation skills under the guidance of experienced practitioners—all at  Licensing Transactions in Intellectual Property at  Bucerius Law School .

This program is organized jointly by Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany), UC College of the Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings College of the Law) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva, Switzerland). It is designed to be an intensive, three-week, English-taught program for upper division students and young practitioners.

The program is designed to build practical skills for transacting technology licenses in a transnational context. It will provide a thorough understanding of the core IP and licensing concepts, including industry practices, and will familiarize students with both the legal and business perspectives of licensing.Topics covered include an overview of IP laws relevant to licensing in various jurisdictions (primarily the US and the EU, with references to relevant developments in other jurisdictions), securing IP rights internationally, IP management and monetization, the mechanics and legal aspects of transferring IP rights (including a focus on EU competition regulations), structuring international license agreements, international dispute resolution and industry-specific licensing strategies.These theoretical concepts will be applied in a licensing workshop. In teams supervised by experienced practitioners, students will negotiate a transnational technology license based on a real life fact pattern and develop the transaction's term sheet.Two site visits to major German/European enterprises, with discussions of each company's own international licensing experience and strategies, will round out the program.