Published: November 9, 2017
Publisher: ACT | The App Association
If you can have access to a patented technology but you aren’t allowed to licence it, that either means the licensor is offering it up for free, in the way open source software developers offer up their wares free to others without asking them to sign a licence. Or it means that piracy of your technologies isn’t a big deal, help yourself.
IP Europe has attacked the concept of ‘licence for all’, calling it a licence to kill innovation. The Commission is considering including a ‘licence for all’ obligation in its Communication on standard essential patents which is due to be published by the end of this year.