Patent pool: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:24, 24 November 2003

A patent pool is a legal trust that owns patents. 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 licenses and how one may or may not discriminate among users or types of use under the laws of different countries
required reintegration of improvements, 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.

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 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 licensing]] and how one may or may not discriminate among users or types of use under the laws of different countries
+*[[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