If your SME is interested in:
- improving the quality of your product or manufacturing a new product by using the rights owned by others in the form of a patent, utility model, or know-how protected by a trade secret, then acquiring such rights through a technology licensing agreement may be the right solution, or
- entering a market or extending your existing market for a product for which your SME owns the rights to a patent, utility model or know-how protected by a trade secret, then authorizing another to use your process or product through a technology licensing agreement may be the right solution.
By a technology licensing agreement the licensor authorizes the licensee to use the technology under certain agreed terms and conditions. It is, therefore, a contract freely entered into between two parties and contains terms and conditions so agreed.