Commercial lawyers often treat an IP assignment as one of the cleanest transactions in private law. The assumption is that rights move, consideration changes hands, and the parties walk away with no residual obligations. The drafting tends to be sparse because the subject matter—intellectual property—is intangible, conceptual, and seemingly exempt from the rules governing ordinary commercial goods. That assumption is wrong. And in many transactions, dangerously so. For exampl

In the competitive world of modern business, protecting your brand is essential. Trademark law is a crucial legal framework designed to...