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The Defensive Patent License Project
Friday, February 1, 2013
12:30-1:30pm (Lunch) & 2:00-4pm (Workshop)
NYU School of Law
Lipton Hall, 108 W 3rd Street
The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law proudly presents a lunch discussion with Professor Jason M. Schultz to discuss the Defensive Patent License project.
The Defensive Patent License (DPL) is a new legal mechanism to protect innovators by networking patents into powerful, mutually-beneficial legal shields that are 100% committed to defending innovation – no bullies, trolls, or other leeches allowed. It is designed to address the most broken parts of the patent system. The DPL also helps prevent adversaries from patenting open technologies and pulling them out of the public domain. It is an open source-style patent license that seeks to promote the use of patents to encourage freedom to innovate & to operate instead of using them to shut down competition, for rent-seeking, or to inhibit access to knowledge.
This approach offers several potential benefits, especially to open innovation communities and/or start-ups:
1) A way to legally bind companies/patents to exclusive defensive use;
2) A way to allow those who are skeptical/critical of the patent system to participate without worry that their innovations will be offensively weaponized;
3) A way to improve prior art by filing defense-oriented patent applications that will preempt future offensive applications;
4) A way to prevent patent trolls from exploiting patents by preemptively committing them to defensive-only use;
5) A way to provide access to a clear collection of patents that anyone can use for free as long as they are also committed to defensive uses.
Jason M. Schultz is a Visiting Professor of Clinical Law at NYU School of Law and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Before joining the faculty at Berkeley Law, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the leading digital rights groups in the world. Prior to EFF, he practiced intellectual property law at the firm of Fish & Richardson, P.C. and served as a clerk to the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen of the Northern District of California.
Lunch will be provided.
For more details on the DPL:
http://defensivepatentlicense.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttB_mjcIKcY
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2040945
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