Wilson: Indemnification and Disclosure of Risk

"Generally speaking, common weaknesses in the indemnity model of risk management are:

• "Universal IP indemnity may support the bulk litigation of smaller companies to obtain potentially market-snatching injunctions, or force up the price of broad settlements under pain of widespread customer disruption.
• "Universal IP indemnity may in many cases be economically unsustainable by even the largest software makers, if it were ever needed. Indemnities offered without a very sharp increase in software prices should therefore be carefully scrutinised..."

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