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Negotiating Collaborative Healthcare Research Agreements

Structuring Joint Obligations, IP Rights, Confidentiality and Other Key Provisions

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Description

Collaborative research agreements establish obligations, protect parties’ rights, including in IP, and allocate risk. In these agreements, technology that needs to be licensed must be licensed to the research participants at all the institutions involved. The agreement should define those currently entitled to use the technology and include a mechanism to account for future institutions and researchers that may join the research project.

Materials provided by the participants, all results and data arising from the research project, and all inventions must remain confidential. Counsel must thus include clear and specific confidentiality provisions in the collaborative research agreement.

Counsel to healthcare providers, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and universities must anticipate potential obstacles that can impede negotiations. Careful structuring of collaborative research agreements is crucial to ensure risk allocation and protection of rights.

Listen as our authoritative panel of experienced attorneys examines the potential obstacles in collaborative research agreement negotiations, key provisions that should be included, and the critical issues surrounding those provisions. The panel will outline best practices for effectively structuring collaborative research agreements.

Presented By

Eve Brunts
Partner
Ropes & Gray
Susan Galli
Partner
Ropes & Gray
Julie Rusczek
Health Sciences Law Group, LLC

Ms. Rusczek focuses her practice on research compliance issues, representing institutions, pharmaceutical and device companies, and other entities on matters such as developing research review policies, ensuring adequate protections for human research subjects, reviewing contracts for various research arrangements, and providing advice regarding compliance with privacy laws. She also represents hospitals, health systems and long-term care providers on a wide range of health law issues including medical staff matters, informed consent, patient confidentiality, reimbursement, and fraud and abuse.

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Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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Date + Time

  • event

    Thursday, July 28, 2016

  • schedule

    1:00 PM E.T.

  1. Potential obstacles in collaborative research agreement negotiations
  2. Key provisions and the critical issues surrounding them
    1. Structure and governance
    2. Joint obligations
    3. IP issues
    4. Confidentiality
    5. Publication and other use
    6. Liability
    7. Other key terms
  3. Best practices for effectively crafting collaborative research agreements

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What are the significant stumbling blocks that can hinder the parties in negotiating a collaborative research agreement?
  • What collaborative research agreement provisions ensure that parties’ rights regarding any intellectual property created as a result of the research are protected?
  • What challenges are raised by multiple licenses and how can counsel overcome those challenges?