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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...

UK patent infringement pre-action letter of claim and undertakings schedule

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[ Alleged infringer’s name and address ] [ Date ]

Dear [ insert organisation name ]

[ Insert patent number and title of patent ]

We act for [ name and address of client ] (‘our client’). We are writing in relation to your conduct and activities.

The Patent(s)

Our client is the [ owner OR assignee OR Exclusive licensee ] of [ GB Patent number [ add patent number ] OR EP(UK) Patent number [ add patent number ] ], a copy of which is enclosed for your reference (the ‘Patent’).

[ Insert name of alleged infringing company ]

It has come to our client’s notice that [ name of alleged infringing company ] [ is OR appears to be ] [ manufacturing and/or importing [ description of allegedly infringing product ] (the Product) OR using a process falling within this patent [ description of allegedly infringing process ] (the Process) ], at least since [ insert earliest date of evidence available to you so far, eg date of printing website/date of an invoice or receipt for a test purchase ]...

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