TMA International Law Seminars
TEACH ME AMERICA - INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM OF MICHAEL R. POLIN
MBA & EMBA LEARNING
STRATEGIC TRAINING and SEMINARS

COURSE #2:   INTERNATIONAL ISSUES WITH LICENSES AND LICENSING IN AMERICA
TEACH ME AMERICA INTERNATIONAL LAW SEMINAR COURSE COVERS:
  1. Legal requirements for due diligence in America
  2. Licensing intellectual property legal considerations
  3. Understanding legal risks versus benefits.
  4. Licensing and intellectual property valuations
  5. Licensing and Confidentiality agreements
  6. Tax considerations
  7. Co-investments
  8. What are the principle legal considerations and requirements under American law?
  9. How do they differ from Chinese law?
  10. American culture issues and how they differ from Chinese culture
  11. Mandatory licensing terms with American contracts and why
  12. Negotiable licensing terms with American contracts and why
  13. American Government involvement with Licensing contracts as compared to China
  14. What are the different political considerations for licensing agreements?
  15. Does Media platform matter with Licensing contracts and business?
  16. Negotiation and reference point issues
  17. Distribution issues for selling products in America and internationally
  18. Oral versus written licensing agreements
  19. Enforcing licensing agreements under what laws and remedies?
  20. Licensing Partner issues to look out for.
  21. Sales force legal considerations
  22. Investor legal considerations
  23. Product legal liability considerations
  24. Product legal Analysis of viability
  25. Licensing and Non-Compete Agreements
  26. Translators and licensing terms
  27. Key licensing industries; television, internet, videos online, cell phone content, & broadcasting
  28. Royalties
  29. License fees
  30. Accounting must be transparent
  31. Copyrights
  32. Trademarks
  33. Infringements risks are minimal in the United States
  34. Remedies
  35. Market due diligence and costs of implementation
  36. Licensing versus out right sales, is one better than the other?
  37. “Quanxi” relationships
  38. Competitors
  39. Business strategies
  40. Understanding demand for your licensed product?
  41. American market assumptions
  42. Partner Sourcing and legal risks
  43. Technology transfer licensing deals
  44. Exclusivity versus non-exclusivity deals

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Training Purpose:

1. To utilize the case methodology as an effective means of teaching students real life issues with
American and international laws and contracts so that management personnel will be able to take
advantage of real world opportunities and tackle real world legal and business problems.

2. The training will emphasize many important topics with a primary focus on legal issues and laws that
directly impact the company ability to have internationalization in operations, profit models,
social responsibility, mentality, and corporate culture.

3. In order for companies to grow into international successes the leaders must understand many
important legal issues multinational enterprises face every day. The companies need to understand how
to make reforms and create innovations in corporate systems with proper legal support and international
legal standards executing international leadership.

4. There are many legal issues for companies that concern internationalization of strategic
thinking of corporate operation, corporate governance, corporate culture and philosophy, competition
pattern and behaviors and if they
Presentation Style and Topics:

The Attorney Michael R. Polin TEACH ME AMERICA TRAINING program utilizes proven American teaching styles with a class focus on:

  1. Principle lecture on a specific topic.
  2. Open class discussion that will involve all students in a question and answer session.
  3. Group discussions where all students’ ideas, analysis, and opinions will be considered and discussed.
  4. Particular case analysis and studies highlighting the main issues of the lecture with an emphasis on results and reasons certain decisions were made.
  5. At the end of each day there will be a summary of all topics discussed and examples of how each topic intersects and is related to the other legal and business topics.
  6. The number of topics covered will follow the format below and can be from one day to seven days depending on the MBA and EMBA requirements.
Personal and institutional outcomes/Take-a-ways for students and University:

After attending the Attorney Michael R. Polin TEACH ME AMERICA TRAINING program the students will have the ability to think correctly and professionally about legal issues concerning:

• Legal Planning and strategic implementation of your launch and business development
• Risk-analysis evaluation with
o Strategies
o Operations
o Technology
o Intellectual property
o Business and legal planning
o Understanding legal and business philosophies from American and western economic viewpoints
• Legal Business model frameworks
• Avoiding scams and illegal conduct
• Proper legal structures
• Legal Training and hiring strategies
• Laws that differ between China and the United States
• Understanding the correct legal “thinking process” for doing business with America
• Legal and contemporary leadership theories and practice
• Utilize leadership ideas and concepts in analyzing critical legal issues
• Legal perspectives on decision making in complex organization and critical thinking
• Legal considerations with social, political, and behavioral models in which business organizations operate
Daily teaching structure will be:

8:30 - 10:00
First Class
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee & Tea Break
10:20 - 12:00
Second Class
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:30
Third Class
15:30 - 15:50
Coffee & Tea Break
15:50- 17:00
Fourth Class
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