Sentences with phrase «patent licensing costs»

I also believe that smartphone - related patent licensing costs, relating to standard - essential as well as non-standard-essential patents, must come down.

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Patent and other intellectual property litigation may be protracted and expensive, and the results are difficult to predict and may require us to stop offering certain features, purchase licenses or modify our products and features while we develop non-infringing substitutes or may result in significant settlement costs.

Nonetheless, companies have to spend a lot of time and effort squabbling about the validity of patents and the cost of licensing fees.

Company A can own the patent and license it to company B. Because the only asset for company A is the patent, and the only purpose for company A is to earn money licensing the patent, chances are it's not going to go bankrupt: It has no costs, and no creditors.

This section includes guides to economic analysis and forecasts and related financial and economic data; cost of living, consumer price index, and inflation data; bond yields and interest rates; cost of equity capital and related information such as equity risk premiums and size premiums; and royalty rates and license fees for intangible assets and intellectual property such as patents and trademarks.

The difference in the price of the tests reflects the amount of work that goes into developing each test, as well as the cost of licensing or patenting the test.

Given the patent and process know how developed by Calisolar to produce efficient, low cost, mc - Si solar cells using 100 % UMG - Si, I expect Calisolar will need to license the process technology to most companies interested in buying their solar silicon.

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Then the company could refuse to license the patent to its competitors, thus raising its rivals» cost of doing business.

It has nothing to do with protecting legitimate innovation: legitimate innovators suffer from it because it drives up litigation and licensing costs, and deep - pocketed, sophisticated legitimate patent holders don't need third parties to strike deals with their industry peers.

Entitlement to undertake reserved activities can be gained activity by activity, with rights to conduct conveyancing, probate and some types of litigation and advocacy already being granted singly to licensed conveyancers, accountants, patent agents and costs draftsmen.

Several large tech companies previously invested in IV, which gave them low - cost licenses to IV's vast patent portfolios as well as a portion of royalties IV collected.

«Assertion of invalid patents raises costs and deters innovation through licensing and litigation.»

To date, we have borne the economic costs and burdens of a patent system increasingly held hostage by trolls that do not seek to build up the American economy, but rather tear it down, one demand letter and exorbitant licensing fee at a time.

It offered exclusive licenses to dozens of patents but only received a single bid (meaning that it likely didn't even recover the cost of holding the auction).

The total cost of the deal will set Microsoft back $ 5.44 billion, with $ 3.79 billion for Nokia's handset business, $ 1.65 billion for the portfolio of patents and finally a four - year license for Nokia's HERE mapping service.

While many decry reforms like these — especially the one relating to banks — as nothing more than Washington, D.C., political game - playing and Wall Street favors, each in its own right highlights the larger problem with business method patents: instead of spurring innovation (as the patent system is intended to do), they often harm businesses by imposing additional costs (in the form of licenses or litigation), which in turn harms the consumer, as well as the economy at large.

Instead, the patent troll often tries to extract a settlement (or a license) that costs less than what litigating would, leaving many potential defendants to simply settle the matter.

Prevalence of CDMA technology and cost of licensing patents held by Qualcomm are often cited as a reason for Samsung's decision to use Qualcomm chips in these markets.