Intellectual Property Documents

Our range of intellectual property templates provide for most situations where protection of intellectual property rights is required.

Intellectual Property

	Assignment of Intellectual Property Our Assignment of Intellectual Property Agreement template is for use when transferring intellectual property rights between two parties.	£21.95 Read more »
	Intellectual Property Licence Our Intellectual Property Licence agreement template for use when you want to license intellectual property rights to another party.	£29.95 Read more »

Business owners and individuals may create work and information in the course of their business, occupation or hobby that is valuable to them and which they need to protect. As well as protecting the actual physical product or document from loss or theft, it is often necesary to protect the idea, design or invention behind it to prevent others from copying or profiting from it at the owner's expense.

Intellectual property means the legal property rights that a person has over a creation or brand. Such creations can include music, literary work, discoveries, inventions, words, phrases or symbols.  The most common types of intellectual property are copyrights, trademarks, patents, design rights, trade secrets, and industrial rights. The purpose of the intellectual property right is to grant a temporary monopoly to the owner or creator of the work to prevent others from copying or exercising certain uses of it. There are legal requirements that must be met in order to protect intellectual property.

Intellectual Property Documentation

Our range of intellectual property documents are designed to allow the owner of a creation to obtain full protection over it and also to enable them to exploit their intellectual property by granting use or ownership of it to others and to prove their ownership should a disute arise.

The documents that we provide are listed here:
• Contract checklist
• Boilerplate provisions
• Trademark assignment
• Permission to use copyrighted material
• Consultant confidentiality and invention agreement
• Notice of infringement on copyrighted work
• Copyright basics
• Copyright registration for literary works
• Employee intellectual property policy
• Patent assignment
• Novelty and other conditions for obtaining a patent
• Trade name license agreement
• Checklist of issues for drafting and negotiating license agreements
• Copyright compliance
• Domain name legalities
• Cover letter to copyright office

These forms can be downloaded and customised to suit the intellectual property in question.

Further information on Intellectual Property can be found in our Law Library, for example our guides to Intellectual Property and Employees and Domain Name Rights.