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Richard Vary – Licensing Rules Tailored for the Auto Industry will Destroy Other Successful Markets

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. 

Mr. Vary spoke at the Licensing Executives Society International Virtual Annual Conference on May 27-28 on a panel organized by Sisvel and entitled Restored Balance and Clarity in the Innovation Ecosystem.

This is an excerpt from that panel, explaining 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.

Mr. Vary is a partner at Bird and Bird, specializing in patent disputes in the ICT industry. He is also a part-time District Judge in London. Formerly, he was Vice President and Head of Litigation at Nokia.

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