A detailed description of the program content is available by clicking here. 

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Program highlights are set out below.

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Numerous case studies of university IP transactions are given throughout the workshop to illustrate legal principles.

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Day 1

• An agreement to agree is not a legal binding agreement

• Is an option to negotiate a license or right of first refusal for a license legally valid and binding?

• Do you have a duty of disclosure to the other party?

• Binding and non-binding term sheets

• Requirements for a legally binding agreement: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Intention

• Deeds

• Avoiding a Proposal being legally binding

• Avoiding unintended side oral agreements

• Authority to enter into a contract and delegation

• Execution of contracts including electronic signature

• Terms of a contract including implied terms

• Certainty of terms and voidness if what is agreed is uncertain

• Completeness of terms and voidness if what is agreed is incomplete.

 

Day Two

• Misrepresentation including by statements, silence and conduct, and the consequences of misrepresentation

• What non-lawyers need to know about negotiating risk allocation including releases, indemnities abd limitations of liability

• Sub-contracting, assignment and novation

• Governing law need not be contentious

• Alternative dispute resolution,

• Termination

• Damages, Injunction

• Boilerplate clauses and what they mean

• Legal terminology and what they mean

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