Lunch & Learn: What Does Licensing “Exclusivity” Mean?

Event Type: Online/Webinar
July 21, 2026
13:00 -
14:00

Event Details

Explore the critical aspects of “exclusivity” in licensing agreements with our focused training session designed for licensing professionals. This session will delve into the nuances of exclusive, non-exclusive, and sole licences – looking particularly at what “exclusivity” means, how it works for licensing parties, and how you can manage “exclusivity” within your licensing portfolio in order to best support your commercial goals.

Key Highlights:

  • – Types of Exclusivity: Understand the differences between exclusive, non-exclusive, and sole licenses and their implications under English law.
  • – Strategic Considerations: Learn how to strategically negotiate exclusivity terms, in particular, in the context of specific IP rights.
  • – Risk and Reward: Assess the potential risks and benefits associated with different exclusivity arrangements and how to best manage these for your business.

Join us to enhance your expertise in crafting and managing licensing agreements with a focus on exclusivity, ensuring optimal outcomes for your organisation.

Speakers

Rose smalley-Gordon

Rose smalley-Gordon

IP Lawyer, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Rose specialises in intellectual property, advising clients on protection, exploitation and enforcement in relation to trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs, patents, and rights in confidential information. Her experience covers a wide range of sectors, including manufacturing, financial institutions, public sector, and retail, hospitality and leisure. Rose's litigation practice covers disputes in various specialist forums, including intellectual property courts, the Intellectual Property Office, the Company Names Tribunal and various domain name dispute resolution forums. She advises on issues such as ownership, validity, infringement and defences. Rose is adept at alternative dispute resolution, successfully settling disputes for clients. Rose studied at the University of Oxford, at undergraduate level for a degree in Jurisprudence, and later for a Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice. She is a CoChair for Young Members for the Licensing Executives Society Britain & Ireland Council and sits on the Working Group for Conferences for the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys. She regularly delivers seminars and provides commentary on intellectual property topics, and participates in specialist bodies including MARQUES and INTA.

Dave Holt

Dave Holt

IP Solicitor, Potter Clarkson’s Litigation & Licensing Team

Dave is a Partner (IP Solicitor) in Potter Clarkson’s Litigation & Licensing team. Dave specialises in non-contentious intellectual property law, with historic experience in significant contentious patent matters. Dave specialises in the Life Sciences, biotechnology and synthetic biology, as well as industrial chemistry. Dave has specific experience working with platform technologies for diagnostics, Machine Learning platforms for optimisation of therapeutics, proteins and biomanufacturing, in silico models for clinical trials, and personalised medicine including development of organoids. In particular, his practice includes drafting highly complex, multi-jurisdictional agreements including licensing arrangements, research and development agreements and complex collaboration agreements, as well as providing commercially focussed IP strategy advice for his clients. Prior to joining Potter Clarkson in April 2018, Dave trained and qualified at a leading national law firm before spending a period as Assistant General Counsel at Unidays Ltd - the world’s largest student affinity network, managing its IP portfolio, agreements and international expansion, which included negotiating agreements and supporting the production of creative content (including influencer agreements) for international partners.

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