# Licensing agreement review
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Review IP licensing agreements of all categories — patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, know-how, and mixed-IP bundles — against organizational positions or general market standards.

Review IP licensing agreements of all categories — patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, know-how, and mixed-IP bundles — against organizational positions or general market standards. Identifies deviations, generates confidence-scored redlines, and produces an auditable analysis. Use when reviewing any IP license for grant scope, field-of-use or territory restrictions, sublicensing chain provisions, royalty structures and audit rights, improvement and grant-back clauses, IP title warranties, infringement indemnification, licensor insolvency protections (including §365(n)), and termination effects on licensed rights. Covers pharmaceutical licenses, software licenses, trademark franchise-adjacent licenses, copyright and music licenses, trade secret licenses, know-how licenses, university technology transfer, and mixed-IP bundles. Jurisdiction- agnostic with localization markers for US, EU, and UK frameworks. Triggers on any request to review, analyse, flag, or provide a second opinion on an IP license, licensing agreement, technology transfer agreement, copyright assignment-plus-license arrangement, trademark license, or know-how agreement.

This skill reviews IP licensing agreements across all IP categories. It identifies deviations from organizational positions or market standards, classifies their severity, generates actionable redlines, and produces a confidence-scored, auditable analysis. **Covers:** - Grant scope analysis: exclusivity, field of use, territory, permitted acts, sublicensing - Royalty structures: running royalties, lump sum, milestones, hybrid, MFN/MFL clauses - Royalty base analysis: net sales deductions, SSPPU vs. EMVR, post-expiration prohibition - Sublicensing chains: flow-down requirements, sublicense conversion/survival on termination - IP title warranties: ownership, quiet enjoyment, non-infringement, authority to license - Infringement indemnification: remedy waterfall, caps, carve-outs, defense obligations - Royalty audit rights: scope, frequency, sublicensee reach, underpayment thresholds - Improvement and grant-back clauses: antitrust screening (TTBER, DOJ/FTC guidelines) - Termination and wind-down: post-termination IP rights, sublicense survival, sell-off - Licensor insolvency protections: §365(n), trademark gap, EU/UK contractual alternatives - Source code / IP embodiment escrow: trigger events, verification levels, SaaS alternatives - IP-category-specific issues: quality control (trademark), moral rights (copyright), Brulotte prohibition (patent), reasonable measures (trade secret), §203 termination (copyright) **Does not:** - Draft new licensing agreements from scratch (see `legalcode-technology-license-agreement`) - Perform competition law / antitrust compliance screening under TTBER or US Sherman Act (see `legalcode-technology-license-review` for TTBER safe harbor and ...

## Jurisdictions

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