Intellectual Property Management

Preface
Authors
Abbreviations

1, Terminology (Claas Junghans)
1.1 The Terms of Patenting
1.2 Business Brief

2. The Economic Objectives of Protection (Claas Junghans)
2.1 Filing Strategy
2.2 Claim Breadth: The Scope of the Desired Protection
2.3 Factors Influencing Filing Strategy andClaim Breadth
2.4 Financial Resources and Attitude Towards Risk
2.5 Business Brief

3. Patenting (Claas Junghans)
3.1 Preparation
3.2 Drafting the Patent Application
3.3 Prosecution
3.4 Strategy
3.5 Conflict
3.6 Business Brief

4. Ownership (Rolf Sander)
4.1 The Rights of the Inventor
4.2 Disputed Ownership
4.3 Employee or Service Inventions

5. Trademarks and Designs (Tobias Boeckh)
5.1 Protection of Distinctive Marks
5.2 Designs

6. Licensing (Jan Dirk Heerma)
6.1 Licence Agreements – an Overview
6.2 Sub-Licences
6.3 Up-Front Payments
6.4 Milestone Payments
6.5 Non-Cash Consideration
6.6 Taxation of Consideration
6.7 Representations and Warranties
6.8 Maintenance and Prosecution of IP Rights
6.9 Confidentiality
6.10 Competition Law
6.11 Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
6.12 Negotiating Licence Agreements
6.13 Business Brief

7. Starting up and Financing Your Venture (Adam Levy)
7.1 Risk, Return and Control
7.2 Strategy
7.3 Company Formation
7.4 The Business Plan
7.5 Financial Forecasting and Valuation
7.6 Financing the Venture
7.7 Negotiation

8. The Importance of Business Structures to the Exploitation of IP (Christoph Regierer)
8.1 Legal Forms of Transferring IP Ownership
8.2 Intellectual Property and Financial Reporting
8.3 Tax Aspects

9 List of Annexes
Annex 1 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (January 3rd, 2005)
Annex 2 PCT Contracting States (as of July 7th, 2005)
Annex 3 EPO member states andextension states as of July 2005
Annex 4 Nice Classification of goods and services (8th edition) – Headings Goods and Services
Annex 5 International Classification for Industrial Designs under the Locarno Agreement – Headings Goods and Services
Annex 6 European Community Member States
Annex 7 Member countries of the Madrid Agreement and Madrid Protocol
Annex 8 ARIPO member states
Annex 9 OAPI member states
Annex 10 Country Codes

Index