Covers the laws surrounding commercial transactions that involve the development, use of commercialisation of technology and associate intellectual property rights. Types of transactions that fall within this category are research and development contracts and intellectual property licences and these form the main focus of the book. Written by experts and describing the many different areas of law that affect technology agreements such as IP, contract law, competition law and tax, this is the leading guide to this complex area of law.
The new Fourth Edition has been brought completely up to date including:
- Coverage of EU Horizon 2020 replacing Framework 7 funding scheme
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Updates in line with the Charities Act 2011
- New section on different types of standard agreements available (Lambert, NIHR, EU consortium agreements)
- New material dealing with variety of relevant patent legislation: Unitary Patent and Unified Patents Court, the Intellectual Property Act 2014, Legislative Reform (Patents) Order 2014, Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations) 2014
- New material on the EU Trade Secrets Directive
- Coverage of Regulations No 536/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive 2001/20/EC
- Addition of research exception (new section 22A) from freedom of information from 1 October 2014 (Freedom of Information Act 2014)
- Coverage of Technology Transfer Regulation, 316/2014 and related guidelines
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Intellectual Property and IT online service.
Mark Anderson is Managing Partner of Anderson Law LLP and is top-ranked as a leading individual in Chambers & Partners Directory UK 2022 for both life science transactions and intellectual property. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, and a member of the Council of the Law Society of England and Wales, representing Business and Commercial Law. He has over 35 years' experience of drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial contracts. Most of his clients are technology-based companies and universities, based in the UK, continental Europe and the United States.
Together with other members of Anderson Law, Mark is the author of several legal textbooks, loose-leaf works and volumes of legal encyclopaedias in the areas of intellectual property and commercial law including A-Z Guide of Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses (4th Ed), Technology Law (4th Ed) and Macdonald's Exemption Clauses and Unfair Terms (3rd Ed) published by Bloomsbury Professional.
Victor Woroner is a solicitor at Anderson Law LLP specialising in intellectual property and technology law. He is the principal author of
Technology Transfer (Bloomsbury Professional), several volumes of
Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents,
Drafting Confidentiality Agreements (Law Society) and the Execution of Documents (Law Society). He is also a co-author with Mark Anderson of
A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses (Bloomsbury Professional), a companion volume to
Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts, and
Macdonald's Exemption Clauses and Unfair Terms (3rd Ed).
