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Licensing and Litigation, Do You Have to Sue to Succeed?
A brief guide consolidates practical guidance for licensing programme managers, general counsels, and corporate IP leaders seeking to convert intellectual property into sustainable commercial value while aligning enforcement stance to business priorities.
Making Licensing Tangible – Follow-Up: What Implementers Experience in SEP Licensing
This follow-up article continues the discussion on SEP licensing from an implementer’s perspective. It explores key tensions in SEP negotiations, including how implementers assess FRAND offers, evaluate patent portfolios, and manage licensing risks across the supply chain.
Licensing as a Strategic Signal: What is Your Message to the Market
Licensing is more than a revenue generating business. It is a deliberate message to competitors, partners and investors about how you manage risk, value and growth. Choose the signal you send.
What Implementers Should Do When Approached for SEP Licensing – SEP Licensing for Implementers
For many companies, the first real encounter with Standard Essential Patent licensing happens when a letter or email arrives from a patent owner or licensing program. It can be unsettling: legal language, royalty demands, and references to technical standards you may not even be fully aware your products or services rely on. Yet if they use connectivity, video, or other standardized technologies, chances are that at some point, a licensor will reach out.
Technology Licensing vs Patent Licensing: What’s the Difference?
When companies talk about licensing, the terms technology licensing and patent licensing often get blurred together. Both are about giving another party the right to use something valuable, but they operate in very different ways.
Understanding the difference is not just a legal detail. It can define whether a licensing strategy works, whether it brings in meaningful revenue, and whether the licensee can actually use what they have paid for.
Making Licensing Tangible – What Makes Technology Licensable?
Not every technology can, or should, be licensed. But when licensing is on the table, one key question always comes up: Is this technology actually licensable?
In this article I go through what traits can make technology licensable in the first place. It’s not just about how good your invention is. It’s about how complete, protected, usable, and relevant it is—for someone else.
When to License Technology or Patents – Strike When Your IP Is Hot
One of the most common triggers is that something of value was developed, but is no longer used internally. Think of technologies tied to discontinued products, or tools developed for internal use that others might find useful. These assets just sit there, protected by IP, costing money to maintain, yet creating no value.
That's your signal. But it’s not the only one.
Navigating Technology Licensing for International Manufacturing Businesses
In the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary manufacturing, keeping pace with competitors demands commitment to innovation. As companies strive to incorporate cutting-edge technologies into their manufacturing operations, accessing the new innovation may become complicated. While traditional procurement methods involve obtaining parts from the supply chain, technology licensing emerges as alternative way of acquiring innovative solutions.