The Quarterly Journal of Judicial Law Views

The Quarterly Journal of Judicial Law Views

Patent pool agreement

Authors
morteza adel 1
mahmood jafari 2
1 Tehran University Faculty of Law and Political Science
2 tarbit modares
Abstract
With economic globalization and technological progress, using of patents, technology transfer agreements and relationships between inventors widespread. In addition to contracts "transfer" and "license" the invention which is the most common technology transfer agreements, Stated factors led to the emergence of a new type of contract which is khown as patent pool. In this contract, The inventors participate in their inventions, to produce or supply the technology based on them. In this article we review the contractual relationship, to seek the nature, characteristics and structure, completed and put it to an end.
Keywords
Patent pool
cross license
collective management
intellectual property
Patent
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