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Jurate Breimelyte

is a legal practitioner from Lithuania with a broad international profile. She is currently working as a Chief Executive Officer in a young company IAM Consultants, Ltd. The company is providing a wide range of intellectual property services – including patent drafting, trade marks and designs consultations, IP strategy management. Jurate is a Ph.D. student at Barcelona Autonomous University. She holds an LL M degree in International Laws from the Maastricht University. In 2014 she was a trainee in OHIM, Boards of Appeal division. After, she was working at the Lithuanian State Patent Bureau and was a lecturer at Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania). Jurate is constantly attending different intellectual property events, following IP courses, writing and publishing articles from this field.

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To license or to abandon? The Advantages of Open Licensing

Open licenses are private arrangements that work within the current legal regime to encourage innovation, discourage trolls, and help attract top engineering talent. It is a win-win solution for different patenting companies and user’s society. There are several different types of most common open licenses. A License of Transfer Agreement (or shortly, a LOT agreement), that helps to prevent legal suits from non-practicing entities that purchase patents for the sole purpose of enforcing them (called Patent Assertion Entities, or PAEs). Under the LOT Agreement, every company that participates, grants a license to the other participants where the license becomes effective only when patents are transferred to non-participants.