Technologic Contracts

Technologic Contracts

1. it is important to be able to analyze advantages, disadvantages and opportunities from the use of different types of technologic contracts to carry out a negotiation and commercialization processes.

2. Technologic Contracts

   • Technologic contracts become a technological relationship, in which rights and obligations are created, transmitted, modified or extinguished to trade technologic objects
   • Software Contracts
     • Commercial software
       • software bought in stores with an established contract form that can’t be modified
     • Customized and specialist software
       • Computer programs and platforms created specifically to meet the needs and specific processes of an organization
   • Hardware Contracts
     • Hardware contracts are more easy to define given that there is a tangible object to trade
       • Contract of sale
       • Contract of test and purchase
       • Contract of lease
       • Contract of financial lease

3. Licensing

   • Licensing is one of the must common mechanism used to transfer technology
     • The element of property to be licensed
     • The entity to whom the property is being licensed
     • The geographic extent of the license
     • The commercial extent of the license
     • The duration
   • Licensing Agreement
     • The license can be granted by an agreement, but terms can vary widely according to the following elements
       • Exclusivity
       • Transferability
       • Revocaability
       • Territory

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