Myhrvold has had some good news for investors recently, striking patent licensing deals with big tech companies.
The cost of the vaccine would have gone up by 25% if the patent licensing costs are included.
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It may even force Motorola, which was recently acquired by Google, to sign a patent licensing deal with it soon.
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Boris Teksler, Apple's patent licensing chief, also testified Friday, asserting that Apple warned Samsung two years ago about copying the iPhone.
Intellectual Ventures, the patent licensing and research firm founded by former Microsoft exec Nathan Myhrvold, will remain an investor in the company.
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Nokia has struck a patent licensing deal with Research In Motion, ending the Finnish company's effort to ban Blackberry handsets from sale.
We estimate that Microsoft will make close to a billion dollars from Android which is backed by Google, patent licensing in 2011.
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Microsoft still makes more money from Android patent licensing than it does by selling licenses of Windows Phone OS to its hardware partners.
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So, you what people are thinking here: patent licensing riches.
Apple is joining the patent licensing battle along with Microsoft.
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Bottom line, world-class companies woke up and realized that it was just a whole lot easier to work with patent licensing companies like Acacia than to wage constant battle.
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Samsung may have convinced Judge Koh to toss a few international handsets out of Apple's lawsuit, but the Korean firm still has Cupertino's patent licensing accusations to contend with.
The patent licensing firm Acacia Research this morning disclosed in a filing with the SEC that its Mobile Enhancement Solutions unit has settled a patent lawsuit it had filed against Apple.
Each additional licensing agreement for both companies adds to deferred revenue and rising deferred revenue means better not only earnings visibility but good cash generation given robust margins associated with patent licensing agreements.
He tried to make a go of it by extracting fat patent licensing fees from technology companies, some of which paid up, but it seems licensing was not a sufficient strategy for Intellectual Ventures.
"We are very pleased to have resolved our patent licensing issues with RIM and reached this new agreement, while maintaining Nokia's ability to protect our unique product differentiation, " said Paul Melin, Nokia's chief intellectual property officer.
ALVISO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 24, 2012) - TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) announced today that it has settled its pending patent litigation with Verizon Communications Inc. and that the companies have entered into a mutual patent licensing arrangement.
InterDigital, as it happens, is a technology company that specializes in patent licensing: the company notes on its Web site that it has 8, 800 U.S. and foreign issued patents and almost 10, 000 pending applications, almost all related to wireless communications.
Last week, Unwired Planet, a patent licensing company that once upon a time was an Internet services company called Openwave, announced a deal to acquire a portfolio of 2, 185 U.S. and international patents and patents pending from Ericsson.
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The meeting mostly helped whittle down the subjects for the closed meetings, which should focus on how much of a curb there should be on injunctions as well as the definition of just what the "reasonable" in Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) patent licensing terms should mean.
Via Licensing, a recent spin-out of Dolby Laboratories (DLB) is building a group patent holders to form a LTE-based patent and licensing consortium.
And reached a general patent cross licensing agreement.
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And there is another alternative: Apple could ultimately seek a patent cross-licensing deal with Google despite its late chief executive Steve Jobs' vow to "destroy Android".
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The deal also extends the existing patent cross-licensing deal between the two companies, and includes a NAND flash memory supply agreement for Samsung to provide chips to Seagate for solid-state drives and other products.
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Bigelow, who launched a small prototype of the module in 2006 after licensing the patent from NASA, will rely on Boeing Co. and Southern California rocket developer Space Exploration Technologies to provide transportation.
It was the first use of compulsory licensing under Indian patent laws passed in 2005.
Increased transparency around ownership reduces the likelihood of opportunistic behavior and gamesmanship by patent holders and helps facilitate licensing.
After Detkin came aboard, he started working his contacts in Silicon Valley, cold-calling law firms, licensing agencies and patent agents to identify bankrupt or distressed clients who were interested in selling patent portfolios.
As these points illustrate, patent wars are not only far from over, but as mobile and other technologies seep into other gadgets and gizmos, odds are licensing discussions and patent suits will only increase.
So back in the real world I click on my iPad, and the news tells me that AOL had sold off much of its patent portfolio, and is licensing the rest, to Microsoft.
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