Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice, 2017 Cumulative Supplement

As licensing law is created and revised to keep pace with developer and user needs, Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice provides the information and tools practitioners need to develop comprehensive licensing agreements, rectify existing problems, maximize returns within the legal boundaries, anticipate new concerns, and avoid potential pitfalls. Unlike other licensing treatises, which focus on either license drafting or on the theory of license agreements, this treatise draws from the authors wealth of professional expertise to develop a balanced treatment that is both practical and theoretical in its approach. New in the 2017 Cumulative Supplement: the Supreme Court held in Impression Product v. Lexmark that patent exhaustion applies at the moment of sale even when the sale is subject to contractual restriction; the decision alters how patent holder can impose restrictions in post-sale patented products in the U.S. and abroad; the Federal Circuit ruled that the assignment of intent-to-use trademark application prior to the filing of a Statement of Use constituted an improper assignment prohibited under Section 1060(a)(1) of the Lanham Act; the Ninth Circuit determined that if the licensor has never consented to the assignment of the trademark license agreement, the purported assignment is invalid; the Federal Circuit allowed standing in Luminara World Wide v. Liown Electronics where the licensee had all the exclusive rights to the asserted patents and the licensor retained some licensing rights; and much more!