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Exclusive licensee definition What does Exclusive licensee mean? An exclusive licensee is the person or entity granted an exclusive licence to exploit specified intellectual property rights so that no one else, including the rights owner, may carry out those acts within the licence scope. The concept is defined in legislation across the UK (England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and Ireland for copyright, patents, trade marks and designs. For copyright in particular, the licence must be in writing and signed by or on behalf of the copyright owner; similar formalities are common by statute or practice in other regimes. Key features include that exclusivity can...
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Pre-action copyright infringement letter of claim and undertakings template (CDPA 1988, UK)
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Alleged infringer’s name and address
[ Date ]
Dear [ insert organisation name ]
[ Insert name and description of copyright works ]
We act for [ name of client ] of [ address ]. We write concerning your conduct and activities.
[ Name of client ] [ Name of client ] operates in [ describe: the industry of operation, what the copyright owner does; who in the company produces the copyright works, if relevant how they are employed and what the copyright work is. Define or give the name of the copyright work ].
[ Insert name of client ] is the [ owner OR assignee OR exclusive licensee ] of copyright in [ Name and description of copyright works ] (the Work [ s ]), and a copy is [ enclosed for your attention OR available for inspection on request at our offices ].
Pursuant to section 11(2) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988), our client owns the copyright subsisting in the copyright work because it is the employer of the individual who produced the copyright work...
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