[Pharm-policy] Royalty cap of 5 percent proposed for 3G patents

[James Love]

A royalty licensing cap from a different area of technology. jl

http://www.eet.com/story/OEG19990702S0004

Royalty cap of 5 percent proposed for 3G patents 

                     By Peter Clarke 
                     EE Times
                     (07/02/99, 10:42 a.m. EST) 

                     PARIS - The UMTS Intellectual Property Association
(IPA), which includes the world's major telecommunications-equipment
makers, has proposed a maximum 5 percent royalty for the licensing of
patents essential to the making of various types of third-generation
(3G) mobile communications equipment as part of a proposed
patent-licensing scheme. 

                     Seeming to have found a compromise acceptable to
most of its constituents within a self-imposed deadline of June 30, the
UMTS IPA is presenting the 3G patent platform as the commercial enabler
for 3G systems. It is inviting interested parties to join a partnership
that will begin on September 1, 1999, prior to the 3G Patent Platform
coming into effect on March 1, 2000. 



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