IP Conference - 2017

The Anatomy of a Research Collaboration Agreement

7 October, 2018 Sunday (full-day)

 

Instructor:



Kevin Nachtrab is a Senior IP Attorney for Johnson & Johnson and a member of the Expert Group of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Center for Arbitration and Mediation. Kevin is a Past President of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), a former member of the Board of Governors of the Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc. and of the Board of Trustees for the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF).

Kevin is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Hunan University (P.R. China), a Visiting Professor at Zhongnan University and Xiangtang University (both P.R. China), the National Taipei University of Technology (Rep of China) and the National Law University of Delhi (India), as well as an International Research Expert for the Wuhan Intellectual Property Office and the Hunan Intellectual Property Office (both P.R. China).

A Registered Patent Attorney and a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), Kevin is also a member of the Bars of the State of Maryland (U.S.A.), the United States District Court for the State of Maryland, the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, the United States Tax Court and the United States Bankruptcy Court.

Based in Brussels, Belgium, where he specialises in licensing and litigation in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, Kevin has extensive experience in practice before both the European and United States Patent Offices, as well as in technology transactional matters and litigation on an international level.

Kevin is a graduate of Western Maryland University where he studied Chemistry, Biology and Political Science and the School of Law of the University of Baltimore.

The full-day long workshop will cover the following topics:

1. IP Establishment, Treatment, Maintenance and Use
2. License Grants
3. Diligence Obligations
4. Financial Clauses
5. Confidentiality and Know-How
6. Representations, Warranties and Disclaimers
7. Indemnification and Insurance
8. Collaboration Governance