Who owns the (Background and Foreground) Intellectual Property rights in the materials?
As a contractor you may be bringing some of your own know-how, software, designs, confidential information, processes or other property in which you have Intellectual Property Rights with you to provide the services. Typically, you might anticipate using these Intellectual Property rights when you have finished the contract and start to work for another client. This is not always the case however and, unless the agreement separates background Intellectual Property Rights (i.e. the Intellectual Property Rights either party had before entering into the contract) and foreground Intellectual Property Rights (i.e. the Intellectual Property Rights created during the course of the project) then it is likely that the customer will require all Intellectual Property Rights to be assigned or licensed exclusively to the customer. This may not always be appropriate, particularly where you intend to use similar know-how, built up over a period of time in order to act for multiple customers. In order
