藥品事業發展授權合約(第3版) 是由出版商Pharmalicensing Ltd.在2007年07月所出版的。
這份英文市場調查報告書包含60 pages 價格從美金995起跳。
現在企業授權正蔚為風潮。現在主要製藥企業3成以上的收益都來自於經授權的產品,近年來暢銷藥中的25%也是企業間授權的結果。
在製藥、生物及醫療照護領域獲得相當評價的英國顧問公司 Pharmalicensing (總公司:Leicestershire, UK)針對藥品事業發展授權合約進行詳盡調查分析,並出版報告書 "The Licensing Agreement in Pharmaceutical Business Development (3rd Edition)" 。
本報告書內容包括:藥品授權合約概要及種類、授權範圍及規範、今後發展趨勢等。內容綱要摘記如下:
第1章 介紹
第2章 合約及事業發展專業性
第3章 合約基本事項
第4章 整體事業發展授權合約
- 研發合作
- 行銷方面的合作
- 產品收購・拋售
- 企業收購・拋售
- 合資事業
第5章 文件化及審查
- 保密義務合約
- 意向書/協議內容
- 條件約定文件
- 智慧財產權、法律相關內容審查
- 附件
第6章 藥品授權合約的主要內容項目
- 日期
- 當事者
- 前言
- 定義
- 授權
- 開發
- 規範
- 商業化
- 生產及供應
- 付款
- 監視及監查
- 智慧財產權
- 品質及責任問題
- 保密義務及資訊公開
- 期限及結束
- 轉讓、再授權、所有權變更
- 紛爭、解約、法律選擇
- 其他規定
- 施行
第7章 競爭法及藥品事業發展
- 合約與履行
- 集體豁免
- 技術移轉相關集體豁免
- 支配性立場
- 平行貿易
第8章 藥品授權合約:目前美國的動向
第9章 結論
第10章 附錄
第11章 作者介紹
第12章 誌謝
Abstract
Pharmalicensing' s best selling licensing report has returned, fully revised
and updated with new statistics, data and expert advice.
Licensing is at it' s peak - in-licensed products now generate over 30% of the
revenues of the major pharmaceutical companies and some 25% of the
‘blockbusters’ of recent years have a history of cross-company
licensing, that' s why it' s more important than ever to understand and secure
the right deal and terms. This report examines the key factors that must be
considered when drawing up a suitable contract, and includes highlights and
tips for negotiating and understanding complex license agreements.
Order your copy of this report to:
- Understand the complexities and key terms of a pharmaceutical licensing
agreement
- Gain a thorough insight into the basics of contract law
- Learn how to negotiate and reap the maximum benefits of a deal
- Examine the types of licensing agreements and what they involve
- Become aware of the scope of a license and it' s restrictions
- See pharmaceutical licensing from a US perspective
The importance of licensing activity in the pharmaceutical industry has
increased significantly over recent years. Many of the industry' s biggest
products were discovered and developed by one company and brought to market by
another-examples include erythropoietin alpha (Amgen/Johnson & Johnson) and
interferon alpha-2b (Biogen/Schering Plough).
It is easy to see what drives this process. On the one hand, there is a body
of ideas, technologies and products emerging from medical-area research
organizations and small and medium bio-pharmaceutical companies worldwide. On
the other hand, there is a pharmaceutical industry with established global
drug development and marketing infrastructures engaged in a constant search
for additional reliably successful revenue-earners to feed their growth
requirements.
In the first instance, the seed of a future deal is sown in discussions of
either a technical or a commercial nature. One company is looking for a
technology to help solve a drug delivery problem and finds a company that may
have such a technology, or one company is looking for a late stage drug in its
therapeutic area of focus to counter the loss of business that occurs when
patents expire, and finds another company willing to make its drug accessible.
These discussions will take the parties to the point where the broad outline
of a potential arrangement is clear-who will do what, how much one will pay to
the other and when.
At that stage, the discussion partners generally feel that the deal is
virtually done, however experience has shown that it is not as straightforward
as might be expected to create an agreement, there are many reasons why this
is quite hard to achieve. The obvious one is that the level of uncertainty
inherent in pharmaceutical product development is extremely high, the
timescales involved compound this problem of uncertainty and the fact that
company strategies rarely stay the same for more than a few years-or even
months-at a time.
To negotiate a way through these hurdles, the industry has developed a deal
structure. This acts as a starting point for the detailed and specific points
that must then be covered according to the nature of the technology/product
and the ambitions and skills of the companies concerned.
This report explores the main stages of an agreement that should be understood
by both the lawyers and dealmakers when drafting up a deal, covering IP
rights, product specifications, approvals and providing readers with a
background to contract and competition law.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Agreements and the business development professional
3. The Basics of Contract Law
- 3.1 Making the Contract
- 3.1.1 Offer and Acceptance
- 3.1.2 Completeness and Certainty
- 3.1.3 Consideration
- 3.1.4 Intention to Create Legal Relations
- 3.2 Substance of the Contract
- 3.2.1 Negotiation Statements
- 3.2.2 Promises
- 3.2.3 Implied Terms
- 3.2.4 Exclusion Clauses
- 3.3 Ending the Contract
- 3.3.1 Breach
- 3.3.2 Damages
4. The licensing agreement in the overall business development context
- 4.1 Research alliances
- 4.1.1 Evaluation and option agreements
- 4.1.2 Contract research
- 4.1.3 Collaborative research
- 4.1.4 Co-development
- 4.1.5 Patent licensing
- 4.2 Marketing alliances
- 4.2.1 Licensing agreements
- 4.2.2 Co-marketing
- 4.2.3 Co-promotion
- 4.2.4 Product fostering
- 4.2.5 Contract selling
- 4.3 Product acquisition/divestment
- 4.4 Corporate acquisition/divestment
- 4.5 Joint venture
5. Preliminary and Ancillary Documentation and Due Diligence
- 5.1 Confidentiality Agreements
- 5.2 Letters of Intent/Recording Understandings
- 5.3 Term Sheets and Heads of Terms
- 5.4 IP and Legal Due Diligence
- 5.5 Side Letters
6. Key terms in a pharmaceutical licensing agreement
- 6.1 Date
- 6.2 The parties
- 6.3 Recitals
- 6.4 Definitions
- 6.4.1 Affiliates
- 6.4.2 Applicable legislation
- 6.4.3 Authorities/regulatory authorities
- 6.4.4 Commercial year
- 6.4.5 Compound
- 6.4.6 Launch
- 6.4.7 Combination product
- 6.4.8 Development
- 6.4.9 Effective Date
- 6.4.10 Ethics committee/ Independent Ethics Committee (IEC)
- 6.4.11 Field
- 6.4.12 Improvements
- 6.4.13 Indication
- 6.4.14 IND
- 6.4.15 Intellectual property rights
- 6.4.16 Know-how
- 6.4.17 Major markets
- 6.4.18 MA/MAA/approval
- 6.4.19 NDA
- 6.4.20 Net sales/Net selling price
- 6.4.21 Patents
- 6.4.22 Product
- 6.4.23 Specification
- 6.4.24 Territory
- 6.4.25 Trademarks
- 6.5 The license grant
- 6.5.1 Exclusivity
- 6.5.2 What the licensee can do
- 6.5.3 Improvements
- 6.5.4 The field
- 6.5.5 The territory
- 6.5.6 Trademarks
- 6.6 Development
- 6.7 Regulatory
- 6.8 Commercialization
- 6.8.1 General
- 6.8.2 Measurable
- 6.9 Manufacturing and supply
- 6.10 Payment for the rights
- 6.10.1 Upfronts and milestones
- 6.10.2 Royalties
- 6.10.3 Equity
- 6.11 Monitoring and audit
- 6.12 Intellectual property rights (IPRs)
- 6.13 Quality and liability issues
- 6.14 Confidentiality and publication
- 6.14.1 Confidentiality
- 6.14.2 Publication
- 6.15 Term and termination
- 6.16 Assignment, sub-licensing and changes of ownership
- 6.17 Disputes and termination and choice of law
- 6.18 Other provisions
- 6.19 Execution
7. Competition law and pharmaceutical business development
- 7.1 Agreements and practices
- 7.2 Block Exemptions
- 7.3 The Technology Transfer Block Exemption
- 7.4 Dominant position
- 7.5 Parallel trade
- 7.5.1 Introduction and Legal Basis
- 7.5.2 Repackaging and Rebranding
- 7.5.3 Supply Chain Mechanisms
8. Pharmaceutical license agreements: A current US perspective
9. Conclusions
10. Appendices
- 10.1 Abbreviations
- 10.2 Glossary
11. Author biography
12. Acknowledgements