ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with legal limitations on one’s freedom of contract in licensing and otherwise exploiting intellectual property rights. It looks at the structure of control over the use and licensing of intellectual property rights in UK, EEC and USA law. A list of dangerous practices and clauses is set out to provide a checklist of matters to be cautious about. This is definitely lawyer’s law and no attempt will be made in a mere thirty pages to give the reader a comprehensive guide to the possibilities in an area which occupies thousands of pages in both lawyers’ textbooks and economists’ monographs.
