ConsortiumInfo: Patent Pools, No Action Letters and Open Source: Keeping Good Deeds Unpunished

“Back on August 9, I wrote about the fact that a patent pool had
been formed by some of the patent owners that believe that their
intellectual property rights (IPR) would be infringed by the
implementation of RFID technology. I was reminded of this entry
when a reporter who was writing about the current status of that
initiative called me up to explain how patent pools work. He’s
written what I think is a very clear update on this situation,
called ‘The RFID Patent Pool: Playing Poker,’ which you can find
here.

“The blog entry in question was one of those that I write from
time to time that seek to dig below the surface of what is
generally perceived to be bad news in order to determine just how
bad that news really is…”

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