Managing Intellectual Property Using Patent Pools: Lessons from Three Generations of Pools in the Optical Disc Industry
研究了光学光盘行业三代专利池的经验，指出技术平台日益复杂导致知识产权碎片化，并提出了“池中池”这一新方案来解决相关问题。
For modern technologies, access to intellectual property rights (IPR) is complex because it is fragmented among many owners. The required licensing agreements invoke considerable transaction costs and royalty stacking. Often, it is in the interest of the technology sponsor to ease access to the required IPR. Patent pools have proven useful to achieve this goal. This article examines the experiences with three generations of patent pools in the optical disc industry. Technology platforms are becoming increasingly complex, which leads to a fragmentation of IPR among many pools and causes new issues. A novel “pool-of-pools” can address these.