Licensing
License it: licensing
Licensing is how what you own starts to earn: a brand on someone else's product, your design on a retailer's shelf, your code inside a customer's platform.
We read the license you've been sent and mark up what to change, or write one for the deal you're making. Before a fundraise, we check what your company actually owns, list what's missing, and fix it before an investor's lawyer asks.
Fees
How licensing fees work
A flat fee for each job, quoted in writing before we start.
License review
We read the license you were sent and mark up what to change. Negotiating with the other side is quoted separately.
Redline of the agreement
Call to go through it
License drafting
A license or royalty agreement written for your deal. The fee follows the royalty terms and the rounds of changes.
Agreement drafted from scratch
Royalty and audit terms
Two rounds of changes
IP clean-up before a raise
What the company owns, what's missing, and the fixes. The fee follows how many marks, copyrights and patents there are.
Inventory of marks, copyrights and patents
Founder and contractor assignments
Written list for investors
Government filing fees are separate, passed through at cost and listed on your quote.
How it works
From first call to signature
- 01
Step 1: Send the deal
The draft you were sent, or the terms you've agreed on so far.
- 02
Step 2: Get the redline
Marked-up changes, each with a sentence on why.
- 03
Step 3: Talk it through
We go through what matters and what's worth conceding.
- 04
Step 4: Sign
We send the clean copy, and keep your royalty and renewal dates on file.
Questions
Questions about licensing
What's the difference between a license and an assignment?
An assignment transfers ownership. A license lets someone use what you still own, on terms you set.
Can you negotiate with the other side for me?
Yes. We quote negotiation separately, by the hour or as a flat add-on, once we've seen the draft.
Do I need IP clean-up before raising money?
If contractors or co-founders built anything before they signed assignments, yes. Investors' lawyers will ask for them.
Ready to license it?
Tell us what you're working on. We'll reply with a flat-fee quote.
Please don't send confidential details until we've checked for conflicts.