Agreement Types

Amendment Amendments to any type of agreement.

Asset Purchase Agreements involving the sale, transfer, or assignment of intangible assets, each with an ongoing royalty fee.

Consulting Consulting agreements containing an ongoing royalty payment based on the consultant’s work.

Copyrights Agreements licensing copyrighted material.

Cross-Licenses Agreements in which each party grants the other party rights, with a royalty due from each party to the other, often as part of a collaboration agreement.

Distribution Agreements appointing a party to distribute products of another party, each containing a royalty rate.

Franchise Agreements allowing one party to operate under another party’s name, intellectual property, and business methods.

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Joint Venture Agreements between businesses to jointly exploit intellectual property.

Know-how Agreements to use know-how or ‘closely-held’ information, often found in conjunction with the licensing of technology or patents.

Liabilities Agreements containing royalty payments in exchange for debt settlements, loans, research funding, or lawsuit settlements related to licenses of intellectual property.

Marketing Agreements allowing a party to market products, typically for a royalty based on the marketer’s ongoing sales.

Mineral Rights Agreements providing licenses related to natural resources, including minerals, hydrocarbons, water, and geothermal resources.

Option Agreements granting an option to obtain a license.

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Patent Agreements licensing rights to patented intellectual property.

Process Agreements licensing the use of a process.

Proprietary Information Agreements licensing confidential proprietary information, such as data, recipes, or formulae.

Research Agreements to support or provide research and development.

Services Agreements ranging from employment services to research services to mineral rights exploration services, each with an ongoing royalty rate.

Shares Agreements providing a royalty in exchange for the purchase of shares.

Software Agreements licensing the right to use and/or resell or sublicense software.

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Sublicense Agreements in which a licensee from the primary IP holder further licenses the rights to a 3rd party.

Supply Agreements to supply another party with parts or products, in exchange for a royalty.

Technology Agreements licensing rights to use technology and related intellectual property.

Trade Name Agreements licensing rights to use a party’s trade name.

Trademark Agreements licensing rights to use a party’s trademark.

Web Content Agreements to license materials and works to be used on websites.

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