Cross-licensing, patent pool and standard setting
Carl Shapiro
University of California at Berkeley
March 2006 5438+0
abstract
In some key industries, including semiconductors, biotechnology and computers.
Software, Internet, our patent system is building a patent jungle: 1.
Overlapping patents require people who seek commercialization to have new rights.
Obtained a number of patent licenses for technologies. Especially in the patent jungle.
When combined with tricky locking, that is, new dangerous risks.
Products will be inadvertently infringed upon when these products are
Design. Need to navigate the patented jungle and keep it special.
Obviously, the telecommunications and computer industries are also among them.
Formal standard setting is the core part of bringing new technologies to market.
Cross-licensing and patent pool are two natural and effective ways to use.
Market participants travel through the patent jungle, but everyone is involved in something.
Transaction costs. Antitrust law and law enforcement, its historical hostility
Horizontal cooperation between competitors can easily increase these transaction costs. however
A few simple principles, such as the consensual package of permission.
Complementary patents, but there is no patent that can be replaced, which can make a big difference.
Insurance antitrust will help solve the patent jungle and
Trap them, not provoke them.
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