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Structuring Patent Indemnification Provisions

Allocating Infringement Risk While Accounting for Changes to PTAB Estoppel and Statutory Bar Requirements

About the Course

Introduction

This CLE course will prepare counsel to IP owners, licensees, and licensors to protect their interests by allocating patent infringement risks during the negotiation of indemnification provisions in a patent license or vendor contract. The panel will offer best practices for negotiating and structuring patent indemnification provisions to allocate risk.

Description

Indemnification provisions are often overlooked but are a critical part of any technology license or similar agreement. Drafting and negotiating indemnification provisions is crucial to protecting business interests and minimizing litigation costs.

Counsel to all parties must carefully consider the scope of liability covered by the indemnification obligation, liability triggers, and indemnification of third parties when negotiating the contract terms.

Listen as our authoritative panel of patent attorneys examines structuring patent indemnification provisions and what factors counsel should account for when negotiating and drafting indemnification clauses. The panel will offer best practices for negotiating and structuring patent indemnification provisions to allocate risk.

Presented By

William Giltinan
Shareholder
Carlton Fields Jorden Burt LLP

Mr. Giltinan is the intellectual property and technology practice group leader. He is a licensed patent attorney whose practice includes patent, trademark, and copyright litigation, prosecution, and transactional matters. While Mr. Giltinan works with clients in a variety of industries, his practice tends to focus on assisting technology companies in their efforts to protect, monetize, and defend their intellectual property assets. He also serves on the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity task force and assists clients in matters involving privacy and data breach issues.

Eleanor M. Yost
Shareholder
Carlton Fields, P.A.

Ms. Yost is trusted by some of the most recognizable brands in the world to protect and enforce patent, trademark, copyright, and domain name portfolios. For more than two decades, she has litigated high-stakes intellectual property disputes in federal courts across the country, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Widely regarded as a thought leader on post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Ms. Yost has represented clients in dozens of inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), and covered business method (CBM) proceedings. She has been named one of the “Top 50 Women in PTAB Trials” and was selected to be a founding member of the board of directors for the PTAB Bar Association, the leading national bar association for PTAB practitioners, judges, and other stakeholders.

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


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Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, June 20, 2023

  • schedule

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  1. Agreements in which such indemnification provisions are likely to appear
  2. Common structures for indemnification provisions
  3. Allocating infringement risk and distinguishing indemnification of patent claims from indemnification of other IP claims
  4. Best practices for negotiating and structuring patent indemnification provisions

The panel will review these and other noteworthy issues:

  • What should patent counsel consider when structuring indemnification provisions?
  • What carve-outs are market?
  • What should you do if your counterparty refuses to indemnify your client?
  • What approaches should counsel use to protect a client's interests when negotiating an indemnification provision?