Licensing and Other Business Agreements

Startup companies often benefit from or even depend upon revenue streams generated by development of successful technology transfer and licensing programs. We routinely handle transactions ranging from straightforward software license agreements to complex, multi-party international joint ventures in technology. The transactions our lawyers have successfully concluded feature a wide array of software, Internet, computer hardware, manufacturing, life science, medical device and energy related technologies.

We assist emerging companies in the negotiation, structuring, drafting and closing of a wide array of agreements that are often essential to them, including:

• Research and development agreements
• Commercialization, co-promotion and marketing agreements
• Manufacturing and supply agreements
• Marketing and distribution agreements
• Technology escrow agreements
• End user agreements
• ASP agreements
• Confidentiality and trade secret agreements
• Material-transfer agreements
• Other technology transfer and license agreements

Our extensive Intellectual Property practice is seamlessly integrated with our Technology Transfer & Licensing practice, further enabling us to provide our clients with valuable, practical, and sophisticated advice on how to best structure license agreements to protect and enhance existing intellectual property portfolios.  Learn more about Foley Hoag’s Technology Transfer & Licensing practice.