---
title: "Trade mark licence agreement (authorised user, with quality control)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/intellectual-property-patents-trade-marks-copyright-designs/trade-mark-licence-agreement"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a23-trade-mark-licence-agreement"
area_id: "A23"
kind: "agreement"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A23-T1-R11"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-18"
---

# Trade mark licence agreement (authorised user, with quality control)

> A trade mark licence under which the owner keeps control of the goods or services so the licensee is an authorised user: grant and scope, standards and approvals, inspection, use and marking, registration and…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/intellectual-property-patents-trade-marks-copyright-designs/trade-mark-licence-agreement  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-18

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A trade mark licence under which the owner keeps control of the goods or services so the licensee is an authorised user: grant and scope, standards and approvals, inspection, use and marking, registration and enforcement, royalties, term and what happens on termination.

## Key facts

- Kind: Agreement. A contract between two or more parties.
- Practice area: [Intellectual Property — Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright, Designs](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/intellectual-property-patents-trade-marks-copyright-designs.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- AI level: Yellow. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-18
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-18 against the authority it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use when a trade mark owner lets a related company, distributor, manufacturer, franchisee or collaborator use its mark in Australia. Quality or financial control is what makes the licensee's use authorised use. For a full transfer of the mark, use an assignment; for a franchise, check the Franchising Code as well.

## Used for these tasks

- [Draft an IP licence or assignment from the term sheet](https://ailawframework.com/practice/intellectual-property-patents-trade-marks-copyright-designs.md#A23-T1-R11)

## How AI may be used

AI may build the schedule of marks, goods and services and fees from the register extracts and term sheet; a lawyer settles the control provisions, scope and termination and checks every registration detail against IP Australia's records.

**AI may:**

- Build Schedule 1 (marks, registration numbers, classes, goods and services) from IP Australia register extracts supplied
- Fill the territory, term, royalty and reporting terms from the term sheet
- List any goods or services the licensee will supply that the registrations do not cover

**AI must not:**

- Must not type registration numbers, classes or specifications from memory; they must come from the register extract
- Must not weaken or remove the quality control and inspection provisions
- Must not advise that the licensee's use is authorised use without the lawyer's review of the control actually exercised

**The lawyer checks:**

- Each mark, number, class and owner checked against a current IP Australia extract
- The owner will in fact exercise the control the agreement describes, and the evidence of control will be kept
- Scope (goods, services, territory, channels, sublicensing) matches the commercial deal and the registrations
- Post-termination run-off, removal of marks and any franchise or competition law issues addressed

## Authorities

- [Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) s 8 (authorised user and authorised use: use under the owner's control, including quality control and financial control)](https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/cth/consol_act/tma1995121/s8.html)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/intellectual-property-patents-trade-marks-copyright-designs/trade-mark-licence-agreement and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*