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...The board pointed to a study showing the high cost of spinning off the unit, including an increase in patent licensing fees and added hurdles to recruiting talent....
...Qualcomm has been under pressure since Jana took a $2bn stake in the company in April, demanding cost cuts and the possible separation of the patent licensing arm that accounts for two-thirds of earnings...
...Cross-licensing changes As part of its deal with the NDRC, Qualcomm also agreed to change the way it handled cross licensing, whereby customers surrendered their patents to the chipmaker in exchange for...
...Jana, which said it had taken a $2bn stake in the company, had argued that steps the company should consider included separating its chip business from the patent licensing arm that accounts for two-thirds...
...Most recently, Nokia returned to the fray, transferring 2,000 patents to Mosaid, a Canadian IP licensing firm....
...“This is a good reason not to be short into the numbers, especially as we believe it is still too early for a weakness in licensing revenues to materialise,” it said....
...“More nimble, focused, smaller organisations that represent licensing partners or outsourcing R&D to CROs is a more efficient way for pharma to manage its pipelines,” Mr Meyers said....
...Genentech, now controlled by Roche, has been marketing Lucentis, while licensing the rights to the drug in Europe to Novartis....
...to extract ”excessive licensing” fees from patents that Motorola owns....
...Organisation’s Trips agreement to override patents....
...Without question, the licensing market in patents has increased vastly in volume and sophistication since Lear. How is that increase in activity consistent with the above economic critique?...
...Patent giants can make peace between themselves by cross-licensing to each other. Patents are like nuclear warheads - even if you never use them, they serve their purpose....
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