(“locked-in”), significant disruption could occur when patent holders seek to collect unanticipated rents from large segments … federal and state regulation, making lock-in nearly impossible to avoid and providing even greater leverage to patent holders … standardized Smart Grid technology is not hindered either by undue economic burdens imposed by patent holders or the threat of …

that patent issues will arise in the future …

Patent holders are, with increasing frequency, making public promises to refrain from asserting patents under certain … conditions, or to license patents on terms that are “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory” (FRAND). These promises or “patent … to make expenditures and adopt common technology platforms without the fear of patent infringement. But despite their …

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 …

standards-development organization (SDO) by the holder of a patent essential to a standard relating to the manufacture of the … obligation to disclose SEPs. Following the SEP holder's assertion of the undisclosed patent against a competing generic … patent. The alleged infringer also brought antitrust claims against the SEP holder, alleging monopolization in violation of …

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 …

Patent pledges — public commitments to limit the enforcement or other exploitation of one’s patent rights — are …. Following initial work that sought to classify and understand patent pledges as a distinct category of firm behaviour, this … paper — following a workshop held in September 2017 — identifies a range of recent developments in the evolution of patent …

Modernization of Patent Law” (Zweites Patentrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz) took effect and modified the German Patent Act (GPA) in … the claim to an injunction in case of patent infringement to the extent such injunction would result, due to the … infringer or third parties that would be disproportionate and not justified by patent exclusivity. Second, § 139(1)(3), (4) GPA …

Recent arguments for stronger patent rights, particularly on 5G wireless telecommunications technologies, are relevant …