From multiple legal battles between Oracle and Google over patent and copyright claims related to Java programming language, to Apple, Samsung, and others fighting over smartphone patents, the Economist writes here:"Accusations abound that innovation is taking a back seat to litigation. Only the lawyers are smiling."
Enter Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI), a financial exchange that let's organizations trade and hedge patents like assets. See IPXI here.
"The idea is to offer a patent or group of patents as “unit licence rights” (ULRs), which can be bought and sold like shares. A ULR grants a one-time right to use a particular technology in a single product: a new type of airbag sensor in a car, say. If a company wants to use the technology in 100,000 cars, it buys 100,000 ULRs at the market price."
The concept has traction and continues to sign up members such as Panasonic, see further news on it here. The article concludes with:
"Good news for innovators, perhaps, but bad news for lawyers."
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