I just finished (a light) editing of an English (machine translated) version of a book for someone I have a lot of respect for who is a Japan-based mentor of mine - Hiroshi Maruyama had 26 years in IBM research, eventually as the director of IBM Tokyo Research Labs.
Some of the key points of the IP marketplace were
- fees for the licensee fee would be set upfront;
- the patentee would pay a % value to the government as a tax;
- if the patentee wanted to use the patent exclusively, a high licensing fee could be set, but that would also result in a higher tax being due to be paid.
The approach was to dis-incentivize bad actors putting monopolies on products via patents. It would also encourage higher utility value from patents under this system.
Another interesting concept Maruyama's book covered was LOT networks used to fight against Trolls.
- https://lotnet.com/
The idea with the Lot network was that if a patent did get rights to a patent from a member of the lot network, If any of the patents from members falls into the hands of a patent troll, all other members are automatically granted a free license of the patent.
The book covers themes on how to do research in corporate organizations (the audience focus remains with Japanese researchers/students) and has some interesting discussions.
I will provide a link to the book when it is available (if there is interest).
Maybe, it certainly sounds much better at a glance than the current system though there's tough stuff like how to set that value in such a way that independent inventors aren't forced to partner with a large company in order to use the patent system. I think some reforms like that combined with a much stricter definition of "patent-able" for some categories and/or better challenge mechanisms. Getting a bad patent thrown out due to prior art is still quite expensive and trying to evaluate if a patent is non-obvious is quite difficult to litigate.
I just finished (a light) editing of an English (machine translated) version of a book for someone I have a lot of respect for who is a Japan-based mentor of mine - Hiroshi Maruyama had 26 years in IBM research, eventually as the director of IBM Tokyo Research Labs.
In one chapter of the book he provides a view across a possible way to fix the patent system which I found interesting. It referenced ideas from the following paper - https://www.ibm.com/ibm/files/S376023B46442F89/building_a_ne...
Some of the key points of the IP marketplace were - fees for the licensee fee would be set upfront; - the patentee would pay a % value to the government as a tax; - if the patentee wanted to use the patent exclusively, a high licensing fee could be set, but that would also result in a higher tax being due to be paid.
The approach was to dis-incentivize bad actors putting monopolies on products via patents. It would also encourage higher utility value from patents under this system.
Another interesting concept Maruyama's book covered was LOT networks used to fight against Trolls. - https://lotnet.com/
The idea with the Lot network was that if a patent did get rights to a patent from a member of the lot network, If any of the patents from members falls into the hands of a patent troll, all other members are automatically granted a free license of the patent.
The book covers themes on how to do research in corporate organizations (the audience focus remains with Japanese researchers/students) and has some interesting discussions.
I will provide a link to the book when it is available (if there is interest).
The book is an updated version of this Japanese book: https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4764903822/ref=dbs_a_def...