What is a patent pool?

Patent pool is a collection of patents. At first, two or more patentees reached an agreement to license one or more patents to one party or a third party through this agreement, and later developed into a collection of intellectual property rights formed by putting multiple intellectual property rights (mainly patents) as cross-licensing objects into a package license. The original intention of patent pool is to speed up patent authorization and promote technology application.

The management of patent pool is standard pricing and the key link of industrial alliance. It not only affects the interests of alliance members, but also affects the end users, which directly determines the development of standards.

Patent pools based on standards usually have the following basic characteristics:

There are clear standards;

There is a set of procedures or third-party experts to decide which patents are core;

The technology license drafted and approved by the core patent holder should at least follow the principles of rationality and non-discrimination (that is, Rand principle);

The patent pool management institution is designated by the core patent holder * * * and is responsible for the management of the patent pool;

Core patent holders reserve the right to license their own patents outside the patent pool.

The unreasonable management of patent pool directly leads to the multi-party resistance of standards. Reasonable management mode directly affects the progress of a standard, which is a link that our domestic industrial alliance must deal with well.