Patent Licensing: Opportunities And Obstacles

INTRODUCTION The patent owner can transfer his rights over his patent to the third person with a mutual agreement containing the terms and conditions. By obtaining this license, the licensee can make, sell, and use a patented invention. Documentation and registration are those two steps to acquire the license and the licensee should register their […]

Patent And The Law – Licensing Of Patent In India

Patent licensing is a concept that provides that patent holder can further delegate his/her rights to a person who can further use it according to the patent holder and take his invention forward and in return pay royalty or remuneration to the holder. PATENT LICENSING A patent license is a right granted to a person to protect […]

Patent Royalty Agreement

INTRODUCTION The royalty agreement of patent means that a person having the patented products is ready to delegate his exclusive rights to some extent in the form of license to a person who shall be known as a licensee who would further use, manufacture, or whatsoever under the provided patent and would pay royalty amount to the […]

Impact Of Medimmune Case

Introduction The MedImmune case[1] arose when MedImmune, a pharmaceutical manufacturing company, challenged the validity of Cabilly patent II granted to Genentech, a biotechnology corporation. MedImmune had signed an agreement with Genentech, which was the patent holder, to license the Cabilly I patent and the then-pending Cabilly II patent application, entitling MedImmune to make, use, and sell […]