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Resistance To Patent Licenses Drives More Suits, Execs Say

IP Law 360

Companies that generate revenue from patents are seeing less willingness to negotiate in recent years among businesses they approach about potential licenses, requiring more litigation in order to reach agreements, executives from IBM, InterDigital and others said Monday.

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Intel License Defense Tossed In Calif. VLSI Patent Case

IP Law 360

A California federal judge on Friday threw out Intel's counterclaim arguing that it has a license to VLSI's microchip patents in a multibillion-dollar dispute, indicating that it can be raised in a separate case.

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Terms of Obligation in IP Licenses: Respecting Tradition While Enhancing Clarity

IP Watchdog

In teaching Intellectual Property (IP) licensing for the Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada), Inc., In IP licensing, it is the difficult task of reducing to writing an idea from two or more minds such that it conveys to both what each conceived of as the agreement. What did they actually agree to?

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Intersection of Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law with respect to Cross Licensing Agreements

IIPRD

However, the population and their necessities as well as demands have increased manifold which has culminated into a need to regularize invention by bilateral or multilateral collaborations in order to drive innovation and help the masses in increasing their access to latest technological developments along with preventing monopolization of patents.

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VLSI Seeks Delay Of Trial On Intel Patent License Defense

IP Law 360

VLSI has urged a California federal judge to postpone a trial set for next month on Intel's claim that it has a license to VLSI's semiconductor patents in the multibillion-dollar dispute between the companies, saying the current trial date is "unfeasible and unfair."

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White House Executive Order on AI Punts on IP Issues

Intellectual Property Law Blog

However, it does recognize that IP issues exist and mandates actions by various agencies to address these issues. One of the topics which raises many legal issues, particularly with generative AI (“genAI”), is intellectual property. Unfortunately, the EO does not provide answers to these questions.

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Patent Owner Says PTAB Petitioner Made ‘Extortionary,’ Sanctionable Attempt at Free License

IP Watchdog

told the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that threats made by ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions “to file IPR petitions and a declaratory judgment action unless granted a free license to three valuable patents,” among other allegations, “runs directly counter to the purpose and goals of the post-grant administrative challenge system.”

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