The Patent Light

Obviously, a company should give careful consideration to providing proprietary information to anyone outside the company.  Such disclosures should only be made on a strict “need to know” basis. Typically, the outside party agrees to accept the information under conditions that impose a legal obligation on the outside party to maintain and protect the proprietary […]

Generally, there are two ways of transferring intellectual property to others: (1) an assignment, and (2) a license agreement. Assignments: An assignment is a legal document which transfers all the rights in an intellectual property to another.  Patent and trademark assignments, for instance, are typically registered with the U.S. patent office and are a matter […]