Executing an IP Carve-Out: A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Identification, Shared Rights, Transition Services, and Brand Migration
By Casey Scott McKay ·
A working guide to running the intellectual property workstream in a carve-out, divestiture, or spin-off, on either side. It opens with the timeline that intellectual property actually sets and why the work must start before a buyer is identified. It then covers the asset identification interviews that build the schedule, the four-bucket allocation, the house mark decision, entangled patents and cross-licence drafting, the software and data layer with its consent problem, know-how enumeration, the transition services intellectual property terms, recordation, and brand migration. It closes with three worked engagements and a post-closing governance model.
IP and Technology > IP and IT in Corporate Transactions | Guide | Published 17 October 2025 - Updated 20 July 2026 | Casey Scott McKay - marksy.us
The timeline sets the strategy
Separation timetables are built backwards from a signing date and the intellectual property workstream is routinely given less time than it needs. The actual durations are worth stating at the first meeting.
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