Patent Pledges

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Patent Pledges is written by Jorge L. Contreras and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785362496 (ISBN 10) and 9781785362491 (ISBN 13).

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.