Posts Tagged: IP Licensing
The IP Counselor’s Checklist for Adding Value During Patent Prosecution
As the new year begins, I’ve been reflecting on what makes patent practitioners highly valuable to their clients. In a prior IPWatchdog article, I asserted that …
Contracts 101: Covenants, Representations and Warranties in IP License Agreements
It continually amazes me that many business folks who negotiate tons of IP license agreements, fail to understand the difference between covenants, representations, and warranties that are “…
Ericsson and LG Enter into Global Cross-Licensing Agreement for 2G, 3G and 4G Mobile SEPs
Swedish multinational telecommunications company Ericsson and South Korean consumer electronics firm LG Electronics announced that they had entered into a global licensing agreement to cross-license patent portfolios …
Letter to President Trump on China IP Probe is Latest Sign of Conservative Support for Private IP Rights
A group of 16 leaders from politically conservative institutions sent a letter addressed to President Donald Trump lauding the Trump Administration’s decision last summer to initiate an …
Transfer Pricing Basics for IP Professionals
Transfer pricing refers to the prices charged for goods, services, and intellectual property (IP) between or among legal entities of a corporation, including a parent company and …
AUTM Licensing Survey: Ominous trend likely attributable to eroding patent rights
Concerns about the ability of academic institutions to keep contributing to the U.S. innovation economy go well beyond federal funding stagnation according to the recent AUTM …
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Cross-Licensing Your Technology Patents
A cross-licensing patent agreement is a contract between at least two parties that grants mutual rights to both parties’ intellectual property. The agreement may be a private …
WIPO Stats on Patent Application Filings Shows China Continuing to Lead the World
Globally, a total of 3.1 million patent applications were filed with patent offices worldwide during 2016, an increase of 8.3 percent over 2015’s filing numbers and the seventh straight year …
Is the patent licensing market dead?
The clear consensus seems to be that the patent licensing market is not dead, but that the U.S. market is in decline and due to a …
Patent-Based Financings: Unlocking Licensing Revenues While Mitigating IP Monetization Risks
Patent monetization has become nearly impossible for middle-market technology companies without engaging in some level of legal action. Management teams have consequently shied away from pursuing licensing …
Questions Raised by the Lexmark Decision
Licensing a product instead of selling it may also be a tool for avoiding international patent exhaustion. It is common to distribute software via license, and this …
The changing face of university technology transfer
Today (TTOs) are increasingly being run by professionals who are experienced in startups, licensing, monetizing and have tremendous depth of technical knowledge in a variety of fields. …
Cloud Services Indemnification Promises and Pitfalls
As businesses rapidly outsource their IT functions to the cloud, customers seeking cloud computing or cloud services must understand the risks, especially when sensitive, regulated or confidential …
Licensing and the Art of Preventive Negotiation: Minimizing Unintended Consequences
The art of preventive negotiation in a license agreement is not practiced solely by means of pen and paper (or word processor); but instead, starts much earlier. …
Escaping the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Toward a New Transparency in Patent Licensing
"The key ingredient needed for the prisoner’s dilemma to work its destructive magic is a lack of transparency between the parties involved," Siino writes. The article …
