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Technology Pooling Licensing Agreements: Promoting Patent Access Through Collaborative IP Mechanisms / Some Common Remarks
Technology Pooling Licensing Agreements: Promoting Patent Access Through Collaborative IP Mechanisms / Some Common Remarks
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Putting Patent Pools into Perspective
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A. Promoting Patent Access through Collaborative IP Mechanisms: Encountered Problems and Desired Outcomes
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I. Finding a Way Through the “Patent Thicket”
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II. The Solution Offered by Collaborative IP Mechanisms: A Brief Overview
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1. Patent Pools
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2. Clearinghouses
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B. Patent Pools as Business Models and Comparison with Alternative Sharing Solutions
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I. Process Leading to the Establishment of a Patent Pool
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II. A Step Forward from:
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1. Bilateral Negotiations
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2. Cross-Licensing Agreements
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C. Patent Pools and Standards: Endeavors to Promote Access to Standard-Related Patents for Interoperability Purposes
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32–36
I. Overlaps and Demarcation between Patent Pools and Standard-Setting Organizations
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1. Interface / Interoperability Standards
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2. Pivotal Role of Patent Rights and Advantages of Collaborative Settings: Patent Pools Strategies to Overcome “Hold-Up” Problems
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II. Boosting Access to Standard-Related Patents for a Competitive Market Integration
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1. European Commission: General Policy Concerns and Recently Announced Actions
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2. Overcoming the Perceived Shortcomings in the Patent Regime
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a. Debated Opportunity of Legislative Interventions
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aa. From an Antitrust Law Standpoint
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ab. From a Patent Law Standpoint
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b. Internal IPR Policies as Self-Regulatory Solutions
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ba. Standard-Setting Bodies’ Recommendations
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bb. Patent Pools’ Enforced Licensing Terms
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D. Patent Pools and the Interface between Intellectual Property Rights and Antitrust Law
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I. Confuting the Traditionally Perceived Antagonism between Patent and Antitrust Law: Introducing the Concept of “Competition of First Level” and Refuting the Idea of “Patent Monopolies”
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II. Matured View of Complementarity between IP Protection and Competition
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1. Stance of the US Antitrust Authorities
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2. European Commission’s Corresponding Position
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3. WTO’s TRIPS Acknowledgement of IP as a “Good of Trade”
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Chapter 2 Historical Outlook
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A. Case Survey: The First Distinguished Patent Pools
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I. Sewing Machine
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II. Motion Picture
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III. Folding Bed
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IV. Airplane
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V. Radio
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VI. Hartford-Empire
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VII. Video
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B. Discussed Patent Pools’ Examples
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I. The Debated Case of Software: The “Open Innovation Network” Initiative
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1. Targeting Collective Free “Open Source” Access to Software Patents
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a. From Linux-Based Cooperative Research Paradigms
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b. To Institutionalised Consortia, as Advocated by IBM at the Madrid OECD Conference on the Research Use of Patented Inventions in May 2006
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2. Drawing up a Balance of “Open Innovation” as Alternative Business Models
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II. The Celebrated “MPEG LA” Case
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1. From the First Steps to a Rising Star
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2. Still a Necessary Evil?
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Chapter 3 Comparative Analysis: US Legal Treatment of Patent Pools – Delineating the Modern Archetype
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A. Outlook on the American Model: The Early Years
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I. From the Initial Patent Holders’ Immunity to the Fierce Supreme Court’s Antitrust Scrutiny
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II. The Patent Act of 1952 and the “Nine No-Nos”: Defining the Spheres of Interference between Antitrust and Patent Law
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B. US Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property: The Current View
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I. The Institution of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1982 and the 1988 Department of Justice’s Antitrust Guidelines: Advocating the “Rule of Reason”
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II. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission’s 1995 IP Guidelines and their Funding Principles
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III. Driving Criteria for Patent Pools in the IP Guidelines and Business Review Letters: Sanctioning an Overall More Favourable Approach
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IV. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission’s Joint Hearings on Competition and IP Law Policy and the Ensuing Innovation Reports: Paving the Way for a Sustainable Balance
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Chapter 4 The EU Legal Framework
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A. Art. 81 of the EC Treaty
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I. The Proscription of Art. 81 (1) and Its Legal Consequences, in Particular as Set by the 2006 Guidelines on Methods of Setting Fines
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II. The Scope of the Individual Exemption under Art. 81 (3)
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B. The Way to the TTBER
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I. TTBER 1996 and Commission Evaluation Report
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II. TTBER’s Review Process
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C. Current TTBER and Accompanying Guidelines
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I. New TTBER’s Operative Principles
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1. Systematisation and Definition of Technology Pools
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2. Questionable Demarcation of the Pool’s Agreements between TTBER and Guidelines
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II. Antitrust Scrutiny of Technology Pools under the Guidelines
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1. Nature of the Pooled Technologies: Substitutes v. Complements and the Concept of Essentiality
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2. Beyond Categorizations: Competitive Efficiencies from a Consumer Perspective
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3. Different Categories of Technologies and Possible Combined Scenarios
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4. Antitrust Concerns Beyond Merely Technological Systematizations
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5. Particular Obligations upon Standard-Related Technology Owners Involved in a Pool: Early Disclosure and Licensing Terms
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a. A Delicate Balance of Interests as Base for the Commission’s Recommendations
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b. The Precedence Set by Standard-Setting Bodies
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III. Assessment of Individual Restraints: Non-Compete, Grant-Back and Non-Challenge Clauses
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1. General Principles
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2. Contextual Implementation
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IV. Institutional Framework Governing the Pool
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1. Independent Experts
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2. Open and Indiscriminate Participation
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3. Overseen Exchange of Sensitive Information
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4. Neutral Dispute Resolution Mechanism
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127–138
D. Selected EC Case Law on Patent Pools
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I. Videocassette Recorders (VCR)
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II. Advanced Photographic System (APS)
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III. Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)
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IV. Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
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V. Third Generation Patent Platform Partnership (3G3P)
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VI. Philips and Sony’s CD Disc Licensing Program
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Chapter 5 Collaborative IP Mechanisms’ Applications: Exploring New Frontiers of Life Sciences
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A. Patent Pools and Biotechnology: Legal and Business Considerations
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B. Pilot Experiences
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I. Cases at Hand
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1. Golden Rice
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2. SNPs
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3. SARS
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4. HNPCC
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II. Some Common Remarks
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1. General Considerations
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2. The Issue of Funding
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Chapter 6 The Alternative Approach of Clearinghouses: Distinctive Features and Applications in Biotechnology
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A. Defining Characteristics
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B. Models and Applications
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I. Information Clearinghouse
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1. Biosafety Clearing-House
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2. CAMBIA’s Patent Lens
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II. Technology Exchange Clearinghouse
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1. BirchBob
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2. Pharmalicensing
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3. TechEx
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4. PIPRA
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III. Royalty Collection Clearinghouse
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IV. Open Source Clearinghouse
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1. Science Commons – A Creative Commons’ project
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2. BioBricks Foundation
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3. CAMBIA’s Biological Open Source (BiOS)
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198–204
Chapter 7 Conclusions: the Way Forward
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List of Works Cited
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Technology Pooling Licensing Agreements: Promoting Patent Access Through Collaborative IP Mechanisms , page 159 - 166
Some Common Remarks
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Monica Armillotta
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doi.org/10.5771/9783845226316-159
ISBN print: 978-3-8329-5976-0
ISBN online: 978-3-8452-2631-6
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