Editing Patent pool (section)

A '''patent pool''' is a [[legal trust]] that owns [[patent]]s.  It must have some [[governance organization]] to actually make decisions about administering these.  MIT and the Government of China run the largest known patent pools.  A much smaller pool is the [[open patent]] pool which are licensed to "everybody".

Major issues with such pooling are:
*[[globalization]] has not made patent law the same globally, yet, so there are country-specific concerns, especially
*[[mandatory patent license]]s and how one may or may not discriminate among users or types of use under the laws of different countries
*[[required reintegration]] of [[improvement]]s, which have a very specific legal definition in patent law and again may be different in each country
*[[consortium license]] interaction with the above, and any [[patent]] or other [[instructional capital]] held or developed or shared within contributor corps
*who holds the patents in a [[shared source]] arrangement, e.g. does it all just end up with [[Microsoft]], even though many people's creativity goes in?

Whether to have such a pool or requirements in [[Consumerium License]] is up to the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]], like other [[license]] constraints.

A patent pool tends to make a [[consortium]] very easy to form.  There are signs that this approach is paying off, e.g. the new Chinese EVD standard:

*http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39117430,00.htm