One-Blue Patent Pool Reveals Five Key Steps to Effective Patent Licensing

One-Blue Patent Pool Reveals Five Key Steps to Effective Patent Licensing PR Newswire NEW YORK, July 17, 2012 NEW YORK, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Patent pooling is an effective and proven tool for helping companies manage their product and technology licensing programs. For licensees, pools of patents from multiple licensors generally carry lower royalty fees than the total for licenses secured from the licensors individually. Patent pooling also saves valuable time that licensees would otherwise spend negotiating with multiple patent holders —time better spent delivering products to market. Licensors likewise benefit from a central point of contact that encourages patent bundling and fair play. Both parties enjoy lower transaction costs. One-Blue, LLC, the one-stop shop for patent licenses from the leading providers of Blu-ray Disc (BD) technology, operates a pool of a large number of licensors and more than ten thousand BD product patents that are essential to upholding BD, DVD, and CD standards. One-Blue offers licenses for various BD products including: players, recorders, playback drives, recorder drives, software, PCs, pre-recorded discs, and recordable discs. As a result of this considerable undertaking, One-Blue has developed a series of best practices for other industries to consider as they create their own patent pools.