#CLE Preview: The End of the Electronic Wars?: A New Era of Creative Patent Licensing
By: Lydea Irwin (@PatentlyLydea)
Recently, Samsung and Google entered into a broad cross-licensing agreement, covering some existing and future patents. Microsoft and Canon also have a new cross-licensing agreement.
These cross-licensing agreements allow all parties involved to benefit from any and all of the patents involved in the agreement.
This CLE will focus on the business, intellectual property, and antitrust issues involved with cross-licenses. One topic will be how two competitors or two members of a supply chain would approach cross-licensing.
“With Samsung and Apple and others entering into broad cross-licenses in the past year, we believe this topic is very timely. Some in the press have forecasted that agreements like this may mean the end of the smartphone wars and other large, industry-wide patent litigations. We will explore that topic, as well.” – Moderator Kim Parke.
Kim Parke will be leading the CLE “The End of the Electronic Wars?: A New Era of Creative Patent Licensing.” The program will feature Eric Grannon of White & Case, Jon Grossman of Dickstein Shapiro, and Changehae Park from Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
If you are interested in learning the ramifications and benefits from cross-licensing then this CLE, which will be held from 8:30 to 10:00 am on Friday, August 8th, 2014 at the ABA annual meeting in Boston, MA, is your opportunity.
Lydea Irwin, a third year JD/MBA student at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, will report on this CLE.
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