Sample IP Agreements
Here we maintain a collection of sample agreements relating to intellectual property transactions. Each agreement is annotated to explain the impact of specific provisions contained in the sample agreements. Please note that these agreements are exemplary; a sample agreement included here may not be ideal for every situation. Use them at your own risk.*
You can use the sample agreements in several ways:
- Go to the IP Agreement Summaries page (Login Required) to see a brief summary of each sample agreement, and to access the sample agreements (Word format). This page is useful if you are looking for examples of specific agreements (e.g., "I am trying to craft a material transfer agreement, and I want to see an example.")
- Go to the Index of Provisions page (Login Required) to see a searchable index of agreement provisions. This page is useful if you are looking for examples of specific agreement provisions (e.g., "I am trying to craft an indemnity provision, and I want to see examples from various agreements.")
* Nothing included in the sample agreements or elsewhere on this site should be considered legal advice on the part of AIPLA or any of its members.
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Washington, DC
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Credits
Up to 375 Minutes CLE
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Its more than just design patents
Join AIPLA for its first design rights summit and get insights from leading practitioners from around the world on the latest developments in copyright, trade dress and design patents. In this online age, protecting the appearance of products has never been more important.
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Agenda:
| 8:30 to 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00 to 9:10 | Opening remarks |
| 9:10 to 9:45 | Update on Recent Developments in European Design Copyright |
| 9:45 to 10:00 | Break |
| 10:00 to 10:35 | Hague System |
| 10:35 to 11:10 | US Trade Dress Case Law Update |
| 11:10 to Noon | Case Law and Prosecution Updates Related to the Title Trifecta of Curver, Columbia, and Surgisil |
| Noon to 1:30 | Lunch break -attendees on their own |
| 1:30 to 2:05 | Updates on Written Description and Enablement 7 years after Maatita |
| 2:05 to 2:40 | Japan’s Related Design System |
| 2:40to 2:55 | Break |
| 3:00 to 3:35 | Changes to EU Design Registration and Recent Cases |
| 3:35 to 4:10 | Updates on the Design Law Treaty, including timelines for implementation and possible changes to international practice |
| 4:10 to 5:00 | Panel Discussion: Claiming Strategies for Multiple Countries |
Registration Rates:
AIPLA Member: $145
AIPLA Student: $25
Government/AIPLA Academic: $95
Non-Member: $395
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Speakers
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Amankwatia, Scott
The Marbury Law Group | Associate
Scott B. Amankwatia is an associate attorney at The Marbury Law Group, where his practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, patent preparation and prosecution, and design rights. He has experience across a range of technologies, including mechanical, software, and medical devices. Scott serves as the Pro Bono Subcommittee Chair of AIPLA’s Patent Pro Bono Committee and is a member of AIPLA’s Design Rights Committee. He earned his J.D. and Intellectual Property Law Certificate from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, and holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware, where he concentrated in biomechanics. -
Carani, Christopher V.
McAndrews, Held & Malloy | Shareholder
Christopher V. Carani is a Shareholder at McAndrews and has been at the firm since 1995. He practices in all areas of intellectual property law with a particular emphasis on design law, which regards the protection and enforcement of rights in the appearance of consumer products. Chris has extensive experience litigating design patent cases, including representations before U.S. district courts, the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the International Trade Commission. In each year since 2019, Chris has been named to the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists list, with IAM magazine noting that he is “one of the world’s leading design patent strategists,” one of the U.S.’s “pre-eminent design law experts,” and “widely regarded as one of the country’s premier design patent lawyers.” In 2023, in Columbia Sportswear v. Seirus, Chris successfully argued a case of first impression before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, creating new law on the issue of the proper scope of comparison prior art used in the design patent infringement analysis. -
Davis, Theodore
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP | Partner
Ted Davis is a partner in the Atlanta office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where he has practiced trademark, copyright, false advertising, and unfair competition law since 1990. He is a past member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Board of Directors and currently serves as an editor of the A.I.P.L.A. Quarterly Law Journal. He also is a current member of the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors and a former member of the International Trademark Association’s Executive Committee. He frequently serves as an expert witness in trademark-related matters and is an adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Law. -
Ritscher, Michael
MLL Legal AG | Founding Member
Michael Ritscher studied at the University of Zurich and received his PhD, then passed the bar exam, completed an LL.M. at Georgetown University and, after research stays at Stanford University and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, founded the intellectual property team of the Swiss law firm MLL Legal AG, which he has headed ever since. As a former lecturer at the ETH Zurich and at the University of Lucerne and as acting president of the INGRES Swiss Institute for the Protection of Intellectual Property, Michael Ritscher has, in addition to his work as an attorney and arbitrator in national and international disputes and as special judge at the Zurich Court of Commerce, also dealt scientifically with trademark law and all other areas of intellectual property law.