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Court Refuses to Keep Patent Licensor's Secrets
- CalChris 7y agoAlsop: Because Uniloc’s rights flow directly from this government-conferred power to exclude, the public in turn has a strong interest in knowing the full extent of the terms and conditions involved in Uniloc’s exercise of its patent rights and in seeing the extent to which Uniloc’s exercise of the government grant affects commerce. This is a straightforward argument. Hopefully the court in GEORGIA v PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG follows similar logic. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/georgia-official-code-copyright.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/georgia-offic...
- duxup 7y ago>He also noted that “patent holders tend to demand in litigation a vastly bloated figure in ‘reasonable royalties’ compared to what they have earned in actual licenses of the same or comparable patents,” and that “[t]here is a public need to police this litigation gimmick via more public access.” Yeah I don't see how you can argue "Oh man we should get X" if you can't show that you ever made X licensing it before...