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Global Perspectives on Patent Law’s Private Ordering Frontier

Edited by Jorge L. Contreras, Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah and Meredith Jacob, Assistant Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Washington College of Law, US

Patent holders are increasingly making voluntary, public commitments to limit the enforcement and other exploitation of their patents. The best-known form of patent pledge is the so-called FRAND commitment, in which a patent holder commits to license patents to manufacturers of standardized products on terms that are ‘fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory.’ Patent pledges have also been appearing in fields well beyond technical standard-setting, including open source software, green technology and the biosciences. This book explores the motivations, legal characteristics and policy goals of these increasingly popular private ordering tools.

'Patent Pledges Global Perspectives on Patent Law’s Private Ordering Frontier, is a must-read for anyone involved in technology development and standardization. The authors analyze the complexity of patent pledges in a clear and concise manner. Moreover, even though the book is addressed to practitioners in the field of IP licensing, litigation, technology development, and standardization, the way in which the content is addressed makes the book useful as well for scholars in various fields.'
– IPkat blog