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Webinar: Patent Holdout and the Quest for Balance in SEP Licensing – Sponsored by InterDigital

April 27, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

Free

The story of hold-up has seduced many who believe patents stand in the way of innovation, but what product or service has ever been held up by patent owners, or patent wars? Even in the area of smartphones or telecommunications, we can reliably predict that next year’s technology will be superior to this year’s technology, as devices and the services that power them advance unabated. Not exactly a narrative that supports the existence of hold-up, but still the myth persists in some corners of the industry.

What is a problem, however, is patent holdout, which has emerged over the last decade to pose the single greatest risk to the efficient licensing of standard essential patents. Holdout creates a very real cash flow problem for innovative companies that need funds to be able to survive and to reinvest in innovation that will lead to the technologies of tomorrow.

More courts are recognizing the problems posed by holdout and the asymmetry that exists between innovators and implementers, but it is not clear that we have yet seen any wholesale change in the behavior of many implementers, who continue to infringe first, and demand innovators engage in lengthy and protracted legal battles only to obtain what was fair and reasonable in the first place many years earlier.

On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at 12 PM ET, please join The Rt Hon. Sir Robin Jacob, Hugh Laddie Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law, University College London, David Teece, Executive Chairman at Berkeley Research Group, and Professor of Global Business, Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School, UC Berkeley, David Kappos, former USPTO Director, and current partner at Cravath Swaine & Moore, Eeva Hakoranta, Executive Vice President and Chief Licensing Officer at InterDigital, in a wide-ranging conversation moderated by Gene Quinn, President & CEO of IPWatchdog.

In this webinar a panel of experts will examine:

  • How has patent holdout become a problem for SEP licensing?
  • How has recent case law affected the interplay between innovators and implementers?
  • How can the use of arbitration be encouraged to reach swifter resolution of disputes?
  • What role should policymakers play, and what more should they be doing?

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Date:
April 27, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
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Free
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