ICC ModelInternationalTrademarkLicence

ICC Model International Trademark Licence is the newest addition to theseries of international model business contracts developed and published byICC. This model contract addresses the situation where the owner of a well-known trademark licences the trademark to a company which will use it withrespect to products other than those manufactured or sold by the licensor.

In this case, it is assumed that the licenced products will be designed anddeveloped by the licensee, and that the main preoccupation of the licensor is to ensure that the licenced products conform to the overall image of thelicensor and its trademarks.

Parties are advised to use ICC Model International Trademark Licence as a basis for negotiation and for drawing up their own contracts, possibly with the assistance of a lawyer with international expertise.

ICC Model International Trademark Licence is another important resource for attorneys and companies engaged in international trade. It carries theauthority of ICC, the organization that pioneered many of the basic rules and mechanisms at the heart of international business.

The International Chamber of Commerce, the World Business Organization based in Paris, is the global leader in the development of standards, rules and reference guides for international trade.

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Copyright © 2008

International Chamber of Commerce

All rights reserved. This collective work was initiated by ICC which holds all rights asdefined by the French Code of Intellectual Property. No part of this work may bereproduced or copied in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, ormechanical, including photocopying, scanning, recording, taping, or informationretrieval systems - without written permission of ICC SERVICES, Publications, exceptby the purchaser of this ICC Publication No. 673, for his own personal use. Thesoftware being part of the publication is subject to this provision.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

ICC Model International Trademark Licence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Annex A Products and Territory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Annex B Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Annex C Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Annex D Products to Be Developed (Article 6.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Annex E Definition of Corporate Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Appendices

Appendix I ICC Force Majeure Clause 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Appendix II ICC Confidentiality Clause 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Appendix III UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2004. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Appendix IV Sample Definitions of ‘Corporate Image’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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FOREWORD

Licensing trademarks is a staple of modern business practice, affecting large and smallcompanies alike, across the spectrum of industries. In order to provide businesseswith an accessible resource for a subset of trademark licensing transactions, theInternational Chamber of Commerce has prepared this Model InternationalTrademark License agreement.

Designed for use by non-specialists in the area who are seeking reliable guidance andan adaptable contractual framework, this model covers situations where the owner ofa known trademark licenses the mark to a manufacturer of products other than thosemade by the trademark owner. As with existing ICC model contracts, the model seeksto balance the interests of the licensor and licensee across a range of industries, andprovides comprehensive notes and guidance regarding issues requiring considerationby the parties.

This is the latest in a series of successful ICC model contracts prepared by a dedicatedTask Force under the auspices of the ICC’s Commission on Commercial Law andPractice, chaired by Professor Fabio Bortolotti (Italy). The model has benefited fromthe active participation of the following Task Force members: Fabio Bortolotti, Chair(Italy); Christian Aschauer (Austria); Pietro Balbiano di Colcavagno (Italy); ThierryBonnet (France); Stanley Chaney (France); Aude Gazet-Talvande (France); ClaudiaKolb (Italy); Terry Peacock (South Africa); Anne-Marie Pecoraro (France); CarolinePoux-Guillaume Kaenzig (France); Beatrice Renggli (Switzerland); Robert Valenti(Italy); Jef Vandekerckhove (Netherlands); Marco Venturello (Italy).

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