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Restoring Balance and Clarity in the Innovation Ecosystem
Today’s consumers enjoy an incredible range of products that deliver enhanced convenience, safety, entertainment, and many other benefits. Many of these products are built upon technologies developed by companies that don’t actually manufacture the p...
Sir Robin Jacob – Arbitration is the Best Solution
Sir Robin Jacob highlights that the European Commission shouldn't get involved in deciding whether something is FRAND or not FRAND; they should force parties into arbitration.
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Gustav Brismark – ROI to the Innovators is Essential
Mr. Brismark explains that to maintain a growing ecosystem and keep new features coming, there has to be a reasonable return on investment to the innovators.
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Richard Vary – Licensing Rules Tailored for the Auto Industry will Destroy Other Successful Markets
Mr. Vary explains that we need to be careful about writing rules which are specific to the automotive industry but may destroy an establish licensing practice in the mobile industry which is orders of magnitude bigger.
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Roberto Dini – So-called Efficient Infringement Discourages Innovators
Mr. Dini highlights that the so-called efficient infringement can no longer be accepted as it discourages innovators.
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Eeva Hakoranta – We Can’t Afford Hold Out Behavior
Ms Hakoranta spoke at the Licensing Executives Society International Virtual Annual Conference on May 27-28 on a panel...
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Patent Pools: Setting Pricing for SEP and Other Pools
Setting the royalty is one critical and obviously necessary issue addressed during the patent pool formation process is. Since this is one of the most fiercely contested issues during the licensing phase, we’ll address it in this separate article both whe...
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Patent Pools: Startup and Patent Analysis
The previous two articles in this series detailed what a patent pool is and how they are formed. This article w...
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How Patent Pools Form
In a previous blog post, we covered what patent pools are and the purposes that pools serve. In this post, we’ll cover how pools form, and some of the rule...
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What is a Patent Pool?
While patent pools have existed at least since the 1850s, there’s still much confusion about the purpose they serve, how they are formed, and how they operate. This multi-part series explores these issues.
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Measuring the costs and benefits of patent pools
Patent pools are widely considered an efficient mechanism to acquire rights to patented technologies, but few researchers have estimated the value of that efficiency. Here we show the results of a research published in a 2017 law journal article, by two law...
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The demonization of Non-Practicing Entities
In this post we explain why Non- Practicing Entities (NPEs) should not be demonized
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