License intellectual property rights

All Intellectual Property Rights and Know How owned by or licensed to NHS Trust prior to and after the date of this Agreement other than any Intellectual Property Rights and Know How arising from the Clinical Trial is and shall remain the property of the NHS Trust. 

Kanavos P. Globalisation in Pharmaceutical Markets Legal and Economic Implications of Parallel Trade. Richmond, Surrey, U.K. PJB Publications, 2001. Part of PJB s Scrip Reports series, this book provides a legal history of parallel imports and compulsory licensing worldwide. The author examines current practices on a country-by-country basis, includes detailed statistics illustrating the growth of parallel trade, and discusses intellectual property rights and court decisions. As an alternative to hardcopy format, PJB also offers electronic (HTML or PDF) subscriptions to this publication. 

Inventions concerning computers are marketable world-wide and thus patents should be sought in all major developed countries using the international patent conventions. Any firm which is unable to market on a worldwide basis should consider licensing all of its intellectual property rights for use by others. They may be the firm s most valuable assets. 

We are entering a phase in the history of BR which is new to everyone. The rules on rights of access, confidentiality, licensing, intellectual property, etc. are gradually emerging. 

I would like to comment on intellectual property as that issue was raised earlier. Akzo Nobel had more than 100 contracts with universities. In most of those the intellectual property was assigned to the university. We would write and file the application, covering all costs for patent execution on behalf of the university. In response, Akzo Nobel would obtain the first right of refusal for a royalty-bearing license with limits on royalties defined. The universities maintained the right to license to others in different fields of use. 

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