IP Due Diligence in Corporate Transactions: Lessons from Litigation

• What kinds of assets are these IP assets?
• Does the one who paid really have them?
• Even if not listed somewhere, do they actually have some assets?
• Were they registered, if not why not?
• Important facts/evidence to find and preserve if the asset is to be litigated ever.
• Tips and checklists for IP asset search/diligence.

Experienced intellectual property litigator Peter Afrasiabi provides an overview of the key copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret questions that transactional lawyers should be asking when they perform due diligence reviews on behalf of their clients. Intellectual property assets are different from traditional assets in many critical respects, and failure to ask the right questions could lead to unpleasant surprises – and litigation – after a transaction is consummated. The course includes a checklist every transactional lawyer should be using when performing due diligence of valuable copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret assets to ensure that all the bases are covered.

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