Intellectual Property Law
New Matter VOLUME 50, EDITION 1, SPRING 2025
Content
- 2025 New Matter Author Submission Guidelines
- Contents
- Copyright Roundup
- Federal Circuit Report
- Inside This Issue
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECTION Executive Committee 2025-2026
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECTION Interest Group Representatives 2025-2026
- Letter from the Chair
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
- MCLE Self-Study Article
- New USPTO Rules for Filing Continuing Applications
- Online Cle For Participatory Credit
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. v. Centripetal Networks, LLC, FKA Centripetal Networks, Inc.
- The California Lawyers Association Intellectual Property Alumni
- TRADE SECRET LITIGATION & PROTECTION: A Practice Guide to the DTSA and the CUTSA
- TTAB Decisions and Developments
- The Licensing Corner
The Licensing Corner
JAY PARKHILL
Parkhill Venture Counsel, P.C.
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF INDEMNIFICATION PROVISIONS IN COMMERCIAL AND M&A AGREEMENTS
IN THE MEMORABLE WORDS OF AN OLD CLIENT "no one actually understands indemnification." Though we work with indemnification language in most contracts, and many of us have negotiated these provisions 100s or 1000s of times, I am sometimes inclined to agree. In my career I am fortunate to work on a variety of transactions, including commercial agreements and M&A. It has always struck me as fascinating that both types of agreement contain indemnification sections, but the structure and content is very different. Here then, is a comparison of common indemnification provisions in both types of contracts.
Purpose