weight in the design of the patent system because patented inventions would have been disclosed anyway. Even the few legal …

Traditional patent law theories teach that a patent's rights of exclusion are a patent's key benefit to the patentee … and are necessary to make the patent system work. Yet patentees are increasingly giving away such rights, in whole or in … part, as part of a growing phenomenon: patent pledges. In these scenarios, patentees voluntarily commit to limit …

the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout in the ICT sector, and then about how to eliminate or reduce these … made great efforts to solve the issue of patent holdup and holdout, there is still an ongoing struggle among divergent … stakeholders. Patent holdup and holdout directly impacts the innovation and dissemination of patented technology, the harmonization …