Drafting a Successful Collaboration Agreement
 

7:30  Pre-Conference Tutorial Registration and Morning Coffee
 

8:00  How Can You Maintain the Integrity of Your Company's Existing Intellectual Property While Partnering?

• What should you disclose about your company's patent rights and trade secrets during the negotiation?…. during the collaboration?

• How can you prevent existing intellectual property from becoming "joint inventions" of the collaboration?

• How can you preserve multiple business opportunities when partnering your intellectual property? 

• How can you manage multiple "fields of use" as they relate to your intellectual property assets?
 

9:30  Networking Coffee Break

10:00   How to Facilitate the Protection of Intellectual Property and Optimize Commercialization?"

• How should ownership of collaboration intellectual property be divided?  What consequence for patents filed by either party after the end of the collaboration?

• Trade secret protection -- which party should benefit and how?

• What can each party do with collaboration intellectual property -- is its use limited to collaboration products or may it be used in other ways?  What is the scope and nature of any exclusivity?

• Patent protection -- who controls and who pays for prosecution?

• Patent enforcement -- who controls and how are fields divided?

• Royalties and collaboration intellectual property -- how do you allocate the spoils?

• Third party patents and infringement -- stacking provisions, generic competition, off-label use concerns, etc.

11:30   Close of Tutorial

Facilitators:  Beth Arnold, J.D., Partner, Foley Hoag, LLP

Peter Rosenblum, J.D., Managing Partner, Foley Hoag, LLP
Kingsley Taft, J.D., Associate, Foley Hoag, LLP

About the Tutorial Facilitators:

Foley Hoag's multi-disciplinary life science practice serves technology start-ups to Fortune 100 companies in all facets of the life science industry including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies, and leading research institutions and universities. Our experienced team of professionals represent clients in a range of areas, from patent prosecution and litigation, federal administrative and regulatory matters, strategic alliances and collaborations to financing, securities and general corporate affairs. The breadth and depth of our life sciences practice enables the firm to meet our clients many legal and business needs.