Protecting Your Intellectual Property From Your Strategic Alliance Partner
...there are intellectual property tensions that exist in every alliance
relationship that you must address even before contract negotiations in order to avoid
nasty surprises later. Every business has intellectual property of some sort - patents,
patentable inventions, copyrights, or at least trade secret know-how or information.
Unless your intent is to contribute your intellectual property to a joint venture or alliance
partner, you need to take special care to keep ownership of your intellectual property
employed during execution of the objectives of the alliance in your hands, exclusively.
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