available options to reduce disparities between large patent holders and firms from less-developed economies …

create a market-based trading exchange for aggregated patent license rights, particularly standards-essential patents (SEPs …). IPXI based its model on existing commodities exchanges, proposing that non-exclusive patent licenses could be standardized … backing of several significant patent holders, IPXI's offering failed to attract sufficient interest, and IPXI ceased …

(EMVR) versus the smallest salable patent practicing unit (SSPPU) rule, royalties for bundled rights, rules of thumb …

The chapter discusses the statutory and treaty basis for compulsory patent licensing, briefly reviews instances in …

thought to avoid the problem of patent hold-up: the imposition of excessive royalty demands after a standard has been widely …, they have proven ineffective to address the problem of patent stacking, which occurs when multiple patent holders assert … propose a novel solution to the SDO FRAND problem that borrows from the related field of patent pools. In patent pools …

non-discriminatory” (FRAND). FRAND commitments are thought to avoid the problem of patent hold-up: the imposition of … reality these commitments are vague and unreliable. Moreover, they have proven ineffective to address the problem of patent … stacking, which occurs when multiple patent holders assert rights in, and demand royalties on, the same standard. The recent …

previously unavailable information regarding commercial patent licensing practices, including royalty rates, in a manner that …

large stream of empirical research using patent data, and more recently trademark information this research is only as good … SEC-registered patent licenses over a period of time for the purpose of establishing a public database of licenses …

These comments were submitted to the Japan Patent Office (JPO) in response to its request for comments on its Guide to …) assertion of SEPs by Patent Assertion Entities, (2) confidentiality of information in SEP negotiations, (3) Bottom-up royalty …