Module 3 · Chapter 6

Improvements

A factory that works from licensed know-how will improve on it. The licence must say who owns each change, what the owner of the know-how gets back, and when it must be told.

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In this chapter

  • Who owns a change the factory makes to a pump
  • What Kelderwick IP gets back, and when it must be told
  • Why Kelderwick keeps its own improvements to itself

6.1Improvements in one paragraph

Engineers improve things all the time. In the Licence, an Improvement is a change to a pump, or to the way it is made, that the Sheffield company develops from Kelderwick's know-how during the Term. Clause 6 settles who owns each one, and what the owner of the know-how gets back.

Key point

The licensee owns what its engineers make. The licensor gets a licence to use each change, and a written description of it, but owns none of it.

Also in this chapter

  1. Who owns an improvement
  2. Telling Kelderwick IP about each improvement
  3. What Kelderwick keeps to itself
  4. Your job

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