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Do you have any information on collaborative R&D agreements?

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For guidance on collaborative research and development (R&D) agreements, see Practice Note: Know-how—protection and licensing, which provides guidance on issues relating to know-how licensing and R&D agreements. It includes analysis of why know-how is licensed, the key terms of a know-how licence, intellectual property (IP) issues and considerations in R&D agreements, co-ownership of IP rights and competition law issues.

For a sample R&D agreement, see Precedent: Research and development agreement (long form) to be used where a customer engages a company to carry out specific research. The customer grants a licence to the researcher to use the customer’s materials in

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