When stacking the clover, make sure it can rain properly. Whatever the clause says, if enough money is at stake, its correct interpretation can be brought to justice: see the main British case of Cambridge Antibody Technology v Abbott, which was decided around 2003 (see Google), which concerned a licensing clause in a licensing agreement for the market-leading product HUMIRA. Royalty-Stacking refers to the situation in which a licensee must pay royalties to several parties to market a product. Royalties must be stacked, one on the other. A licensee may attempt to negotiate a clause in its first licensing agreement that states that if it must pay a fee to another IP owner, the licence fee is reduced under the first licensing agreement. These clauses are called compensation clauses. They harvested this when we passed, mapped it in a big wooden cart to the Yurts and stacked it. So once the problems are off, if they can come to a small agreement. Let`s put something on the fridge, where we write notes on what we`re not. Maybe we don`t communicate well with each other, or on a Saturday morning, let`s have a meeting and talk about x, y and z. Licensing agreements differ considerably in the way these issues are dealt with, and not all licensing agreements have licensing clauses. In IP Draught`s experience, some parties negotiate tailored clauses, while others stick to one of their perception as a “default” clause from a previous agreement or temple.
For IP Draughts, these are good issues that are not always dealt with in negotiations. Reader, what is your experience? Should these clauses be negotiated more appropriately than they are now? How do you think they should be structured? Should we welcome them? An inspector investigating a complaint that the employer did not grant one or more days of personal leave to an employee or provided it without pay should attempt to obtain a copy of the existing collective agreement or employment contract to determine the conditions for granting the leave.
