Patent holders want money for an idea and they may never engage in manufacturing.
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Patent holders that find infringing Android applications are encouraged to resolve their disputes directly with app developers.
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There are many patent holders that contributed to MPEG, and each gets a small slice of every sale.
Increased transparency around ownership reduces the likelihood of opportunistic behavior and gamesmanship by patent holders and helps facilitate licensing.
In most cases, patent holders must spend years in the lab and in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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The question for patent holders is, can they compete with their open-source competitors?
Richard Doherty, an analyst at Envisioneering Group, says that DRM patent holders will be paid on a taxi-meter-type system.
The oddity here is that the US is the only country where patent holders get two bites at the cherry.
And small patent holders don't like the idea of the "first-to-file" system.
But that vision can never happen, Salzberg says, if the genome is tied up among numerous patent holders, each demanding expensive licensing fees.
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Via Licensing, a recent spin-out of Dolby Laboratories (DLB) is building a group patent holders to form a LTE-based patent and licensing consortium.
Given its long-established business of licensing wireless technologies to gadget makers, Qualcomm is likely to be included on any roundup of wireless patent holders.
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Whether FRAND-encumbered patent holders should be able to seek injunctions is a critically important policy issue, and as a matter of policy a prohibition may make perfect sense.
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An opposing group, the Innovation Alliance, generally represents smaller patent holders, but also includes firms, such as Qualcomm, which rely on licensing patents that are used on other products such as cellphones.
In an effort to protect both patients and patent holders and to harmonize patent protection for various types of goods, World Trade Organization members established minimum standards for protecting and enforcing intellectual property.
The Executive Council of the company voted unanimously (including the founders and patent holders of the Xytrin compound) against further investments into the program and announced this publicly (see the Press Release from 13 Feb 2009).
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It was also blessedly far from the reach of east-coast patent holders such as Thomas Edison, who would defend his camera technology with legal challenges and, if the mood took him, with hired goons wielding baseball bats.
Google has taken a principled and somewhat lonely stand in favor of open video standards, with most other technology companies pushing for the proprietary H.264 standard, which would enrich patent holders but harm open source software.
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An opposing group, the Innovation Alliance, generally represents smaller patent holders, but also includes firms, such as Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which rely on licensing patents that are used on other products such as cellphones.
Because the perceived quality of patent awards has deteriorated--critics complain that they were given almost indiscriminately to dot-coms for only the slightest changes in prior art--even minor patent applications must be carefully (and expensively) vetted by patent lawyers as protection against lawsuits by aggrieved patent holders.
Plenty of other firms have paid off patent-holders in the face of legal action.
Then they claim that the law would increase the cost of medical research by non-patent-holders.
This sounds like Facebook is planning on using the patent as a defensive move, to protect against lawsuits from other patent-holders.
Trolls argue that just because they choose not to make or sell products, they should not have less protection than active patent-holders.
Cases like eBay's fuel fears that development of new high-tech products may be seriously hampered by the litigious intent of some patent-holders.
About five years ago, the obvious place for patent-holders to sue was a cluster of district court in some tiny, dusty towns in Eastern Texas.
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