LAW 724 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Resale Price Maintenance, North American Free Trade Agreement, Bilateral Investment Treaty
3 Oct 2014
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Outsourcing: understanding outsourcing: the global supply chain. Intellectual property rights of the outsourcer: protection of personal information. Agency: common characteristics of an agency relationship, actual authority and apparent authority. Example: agent"s actual authority limited by principal. Termination of the agency agreement: an agency agreement is a contract of utmost good faith , preparing the agency contract: duties of principal and agent, special protection for agents in other countries, checklist for negotiating an agency agreement. Distributor agrees to export ban in european union p. 314. Ex: heavy fine for distributor"s unwritten agreement to export ban. Licensing: what is licensing, reasons for licensing, potential problems. Don"t expect huge gains in china"s battle against piracy : competition law and licensing. 1) canadian firm licenses its own product for foreign sale (first time) 2) canadian firm licenses its own product for foreign sale (not the first time) 3) foreign firm initiates license to sell canadian product (standard form)
