Structuring Patent Licensing Transactions is an authoritative, insider's perspective on key strategies for creating and negotiating patent license agreements on behalf of clients. Featuring partners and shareholders from some of the nation's leading firms, these experts guide the reader through the various types of licensing situations, including the unique benefits and challenges associated with each. These top lawyers reveal their advice on drafting applications, performing due diligence for in-licensing opportunities, negotiating with licensees, and creating license agreements that create value for both parties. From educating clients on the importance of protecting intellectual property to discussing the financial implications of licensing, these authors explain the need for companies to protect and exploit innovative ideas. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today, as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to navigating a challenging area of law.

Focuses on "the identification and acquisition, or transfer, through licensing, of technology that is owned by another by virtue of an intellectual property right." - page 5.

Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communication Technology examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSOs) address patent disclosures, licensing terms, transfers of patent ownership, and other issues that arise in connection with developing technical standards for consumer and other microelectronic products, associated software and components, and communications networks including the Internet. Attempting to balance the interests of patent holders, other participants in standard-setting, standards implementers, and consumers, the report calls on SSOs to develop more explicit policies to avoid patent holdup and royalty-stacking, ensure that licensing commitments carry over to new owners of the patents incorporated in standards, and limit injunctions for infringement of patents with those licensing commitments. The report recommends government measures to increase the transparency of patent ownership and use of standards information to improve patent quality and to reduce conflicts of laws across countries.

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