Map IP indemnity as a risk treatment
Analyze IP indemnity requests as risk treatments rather than isolated legal preferences.
The move: tie indemnity to controllable uncertainty. In a licensing agreement, indemnity is a risk treatment. It answers: if a third party claims the licensed asset infringes their rights, who defends, who pays, and under what conditions? That treatment is reasonable when the indemnifying party controls the asset, the scope, and the infringement risk. It becomes unstable when the claim comes from customer changes, unauthorized combinations, third-party inputs, or use outside the grant. The ISO-style risk process keeps the conversation grounded. Identify the objective: uninterrupted use of licensed rights. Identify the uncertainty: infringement claim, ownership dispute, open-source obligation, or third-party…
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