Skip to content

Comment on Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcastersparent

Comments

One wrinkle -- even under current case law, payments can still validly be collected for non-patent IP (most often trade secrets). Thus, the best practice from the licensor's is to delineate what portion of the royalty rate is attributable to the patent, the trade secret, the trademark, etc., and stop collecting each portion once the corresponding IP expires or is (finally, unappealably) held invalid.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.