Patent Pledges: Private Tool For Public Good

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- Spring 2016

Status: Completed in 2016

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Patent pledges are undertakings by patent owners not to enforce their rights in order to innovate around the intellectual property embodied in their patents. They are a relatively new instrument for promoting open-innovation, and have yet to be utilized widely, but they have the potential to accelerate technological progress: by pledging not to enforce a patent its

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Author:

Nils Burrowbridge Tracy
Supervisor:

Kip Frey

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