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This book explores the business strategies of patents in the context of Microsoft’s attempt to remake its image this decade. The authors of the book are Marshall Phelps, the architect of IBM’s successful patent licensing program, and David Kline, the author of Rembrandts in the Attic – the standard against which all books on patent business strategy are measured.
The book describes how Microsoft used its patent portfolio to build relationships with its customers, like Toshiba. The vehicle for it to accomplish this goal was patent cross licensing deals. However, before Microsoft could make any progress in these deals they had to drop their non-assertion of patents clause. Microsoft had invented this clause in order to compensate for their weak patent portfolio in the 90s.
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