After deciding on the basic corporate or contractual structure, the company should decide how best to strategically divide the manufacturing process.

Once the company selects a potential outsourced manufacturing partner, it should design a transaction structure that reinforces its commercial expectations and the manufacturer’s contractual obligations.

Over the past 100 years corporate America has become quite sophisticated in how it lobbies the US Federal and State government and regulators.

Perhaps the single most important part of outsourced manufacturing is to select a trustworthy partner.

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Nearly all manufacturing processes involve a significant number of intellectual assets.

There are two common categories of outsourced manufacturing: toll manufacturing and contract manufacturing.

Since the beginning of the industrial age, companies have outsourced part of the manufacturing process to third-party providers.

In the topsy-turvy world of Standard Essential Patent (SEP) litigation, a court acknowledging the obvious often counts as news.

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