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While he was working as a technology scout, Ruben Flores-Saaib had no intention of entering the technology transfer field, but that’s exactly where he…

Imagine this: a limited liability company (LLC) is formed, for the sole purpose of acquiring patents, including what are likely to be low-quality patents of suspect validity. Patents in hand, the LLC starts approaching high-tech companies and demanding licensing fees. If they don’t get paid, the...

Summary The increasing intersection of antitrust and intellectual property laws has led to a number of complex legal issues for which clients often seek guidance from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”). Earlier this year, a collaboration of fifteen private and public universities sought specific guidance from the DOJ with regard to a non-Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”) patent pool. In its response, the DOJ found that the design, contractual structure, and antitrust safeguards employed in the collaboration minimized legal risk while promoting procompetitive...

Date Time Leading universities launch joint technology licensing program USC has joined a coalition of leading research universities that aims to boost the transfer of researchers’ patented technologies and inventions to companies. All told, 15 universities are members of the limited liability corporation University Technology Licensing Program (UTLP): USC, Brown, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton, SUNY Binghamton, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Yale. UTLP will provide a new marketplace that bundles licensable technologies from multiple institutio...