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There is something about standard essential patents that encourages subterfuge by implementers.

I help people make money from their intellectual property. My primary unit of currency is a patent. What is a patent?

Patent litigation, the Sport of Kings, does not come cheap, especially when the litigation transmogrifies into a multi-jurisdictional slugfest.

I am very pleased to be participating in the upcoming webinar hosted by IPWatchdog and IPLytics on Tuesday March 9 at Noon Eastern Time.

In my last installment, I talked about IP audits as a way to strengthen your portfolio. Once those avenues have been exhausted, the next step is to undergo a phase of structured innovation.

For my next trick, disappearing LOA Disclosures!

Some people have a visceral reaction to the word audit. They think the tax people are coming and will soon be pounding on the door.

In the highly contentious world of SEP licensing, one of the biggest debates in recent years has been between advocates of compulsory “access to all” and the existing “license to all” Regimes.

Is this what awaits? Last year, I described the broad negative and anticompetitive consequences of the IEEE’s 2015 patent policy, and was pleased to see the U.S. Department of Justice’s important 2020 Business Review Letter to IEEE (“DOJ BRL”) cite to my empirical work (see FN 47).