The new working paper on “Patent Holdout and Small(er) Technology Firms” is now available on SSRN. Please join Matt Rappaport and Bowman Heiden when they present their finding next week at the 4iP Council webinar on Feb 16th at 16.00 CET.

This study investigates the symmetrical theory of patent holdout whereby strong patents asserted in a regime of weak injunctive relief can only extract value below their true worth. The focus of the study is on small(er) technology firms (STFs), which are generally understood as critical to economic growth.

Please register for the webinar here.

We are pleased to announce that the article written by our advisory board member Ruud Peters, colleague Igor Nikolic and director Bowman Heiden has been nominated for the Antitrust writing award 2023. The article is about “DESIGNING SEP LICENSING NEGOTIATION GROUPS TO REDUCE PATENT HOLDOUT IN 5G/IOT MARKETS“.

The voting period for the Academic Articles competition of the 2023 Antitrust Writing Awards is now open until March 14, 2023.

Here is a link to vote for this article.

In September, the CIP Roundtable 2022 took place in Gothenburg.

Bo Heiden will participate as an expert in a webinar organized by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency on June 7^th. This session is about “EU – From Lab to Market – Successful Technology Transfer Journeys – Case: OXEON” 

Live streaming available and is offered free of charge.

To read more about it, please click here.

Bowman Heiden will be moderating the panel at the hybrid conference “STANDARD ESSENTIAL PATENTS: THE EVOLVING LICENSING FRAMEWORK”.

The conference will take place in one afternoon on April 21, from 3.00 – 5.30 pm CET. The event will start with the presentation and discussion of the book, and will move on with a roundtable discussion on the recent global developments regarding the SEP licensing framework from the academic, policy and industry perspective.

To read more about it and to register please click here.

Bowman Heiden will take part as a panelist in the upcoming session on IP & China at the IP Awareness Summit 2022 held at Haas Business School, UC-Berkeley. The session will include James Pooley, David Teece, Mark Cohen, and Jiarui Liu.​

IPAS 2022 is a gathering of IP owners, creators, educators, lawyers, organizations and investors, all with a common goal – to explore ways to make the benefits of IP rights, and the issues surrounding them, more apparent to key audiences.

Topics to be addressed this year include:

• Entrepreneurship and Diversity – Do strong IP rights help or hinder them?

• The IP Understanding Disconnect – What is it? Why it matters. How to address it.

• The Impact of  Web3 and ‘Virtual’ Property on IP – AI, blockchain and NFTs

• China and Global Threats – IP’s role in maintaining an innovation edge

For more info about the IP Awareness Summit 2022, please click here.

IAM Magazine presents a new monthly feature in which companies will share stories, learnings, and experiences of their D&I journey related to IP and innovation with the IAM audience. To introduce the series, Suzanne Harrison and Bowman Heiden provide background on the Increasing Diversity in Innovation programme and share some preliminary findings.

Currently, we have over 50 technology companies committed to the Diversity Pledge from both the US and Europe across a variety of different industries as well as over 25 law firms and consulting firms as pledge supporters. The decision to create a pledge at the core of our initiative is quite simple – the achievement of meaningful results requires a commitment to putting in the work (i.e. nothing important is ever easy).

To read the full article, please click here.