Lawyers for license law in Frankfurt

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Generally, a license is a permission to make use of another person’s property. In property law it may grant access to or allow the usage of foreign property. This property may be tangible, intangible, or of the intellectual kind, the latter being the most relevant in general license law.

A license agreement is a contractual agreement between the licensor, the owner of the property, and the licensee. The licensee is granted the right of use of the property, usually in exchange for a consideration, the so-called license fee. This is beneficial for both parties, as the licensor remains the owner of the property, while the licensee may still be granted permission to make use of it for his own purposes, possibly for lower costs than those of having to acquire the property, possibly because the licensor would not have been willing to sell.

There is no particular legal regulation for license law. Instead an independent legal framework exists for the respective special cases, such as trademark law or copyright law. Due to the contractual nature of a license, general contract law unsurprisingly also plays a role.

As mentioned above, the field of license law is most relevant for intellectual property. This includes patents, copyrights, and trademarks. By association, franchising contracts are a special kind of licensing agreements, although a more distinguishing terminology has surfaced between the two in recent years.

Copyright law in particular is also extremely relevant for internet law. With web technologies becoming faster and more capable every day, the amount of data being transferred is increasing on a constant basis. Making sure that you are fully benefiting from your intellectual property rights, or that you are not infringing somebody else’s is not only becoming more operation crucial, but also a lot harder to achieve.

It does not matter if you are trying to get the copyrights to an image for use on your homepage, the certainty that you may use a company’s logo for your online store, or trying to gain the rights to a particular design or utility patent: we can help you. Please do not hesitate to contact us and we will swiftly provide you with professional and helpful insights, no commitment on your part required.