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VIDEO · 05 SEPTEMBER 2025

Ask An IP Litigator: Licensing And Contractual Obligations (Video)

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For businesses whose value lies in their IP rights, licensing offers significant advantages to licensors and licensees alike.

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Nicole Mantini (00:06): Hello and welcome to Ask an IP Litigator. Today we're going to quickly run through some of the unique issues that arise in licensing agreements. When the thing that you're licensing is intellectual property, as opposed to, say, a car or real estate. So Yael, why don't you start us off? How is licensing IP unique?

Yael Bienenstock (00:24): So first of all, there are many businesses where a good chunk of the value of the business sits in their intellectual property rights. And these are things like biotech, healthcare, hi-tech engineering, just to name a few industries. And licensing can be really helpful in these industries. It can generate significant revenue for the licensor and can allow licensees to do things like enter new markets or access new technologies that it might not otherwise have access to.

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