Contractual agreement

CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS: secure and enhance your intangible assets

Strategic contractual agreements are key to protecting, managing, and maximising the value of your intangible assets in today’s world of innovation, creativity, and business. As the saying goes, ‘prevention is better than cure’. Specialised industrial and intellectual property (IP) agreements are powerful tools for safeguarding your interests, enhancing the value of your creations, and building strong, secure and enduring business relationships.

Why are IP agreements key?

Agreements let you:

• Clearly define rights and responsibilities: specify ownership, permitted uses, and the compensation or royalties arising from the use of intellectual property rights.
• Prevent conflicts: anticipate potential disputes by clearly defining the scope of licences, transfers, confidentiality agreements, and other legal relationships.
• Protect innovation: ensure that confidential information, know-how and inventions are properly protected through specific provisions.
• Generate value: turn your intangible assets into a source of income by regulating their commercial exploitation through licences, franchises or other agreements.
• Delimit liability: set out the consequences of contractual breaches to protect all parties against potential infringements.

Contractual agreements services at PADIMA: a proactive and personalised approach

PADIMA helps you create the best contractual framework for your project or company’s particular needs.PADIMA helps you create the best contractual framework for your project or company’s particular needs. Our lawyers specialising in Industrial and Intellectual Property advise you on the drafting, review and negotiation of a wide variety of agreements, including:

• Confidentiality, technology transfer and know-how management agreements:
  • Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs): protecting your sensitive information by requiring recipient parties to maintain confidentiality and refrain from using it for unauthorised purposes
  • Technology transfer agreements: regulating the transfer of technical knowledge, know-how and technology, clearly defining compensation, scope of the transfer and the obligations of all the parties involved.
  • Know-how management agreements: establishing guidelines for managing, protecting and leveraging the knowledge and expertise developed within company
• Collaboration, agency, distribution and supply agreements
  • Collaboration agreements: defining the legal framework for joint research and development (R&D) initiatives, co-creation projects or any other form of strategic business collaboration.
  • Agency and distribution agreements: regulating the relationship with your agents and distributors, setting out the terms and conditions for the promotion, sale and distribution of your products or services.
• Licence agreements, transfer of IP rights, image rights, advertising and software:
  • IP licence agreements: allowing you to authorise the use of your patents, designs, trade marks, copyrights or software to third parties, under specific conditions and in exchange for financial compensation (royalties)
  • IP rights transfer agreements: regulating the transfer of ownership of your IP rights to a third party.
  • Image rights agreements: managing the use of the image of individuals and influencers in advertising campaigns, events or other commercial activities.
  • Advertising agreements: defining the terms and conditions of advertising campaigns, including the assignment of intellectual and industrial property rights over creative works.
  • Software licensing and development agreements: establishing the conditions of use, modification and distribution of software, as well as the ownership of the rights over it.

Why contractual review matters

Not only do we draft contractual agreements from scratch, but we also review existing agreements to ensure that they:

• Adequately protect your interests.
• Comply with current legislation.
• Adapt to the evolution of your business.

Get the contractual framework your innovation deserves. Contact us today to discuss your specific needs and build perfectly tailored contractual agreements to protect and enhance your intangible assets.