IEEE Standards Association and Via Licensing Corp. Collaborate to Foster Intellectual Property Licensing Programs for IEEE Standards

8 December 2008 — The IEEE Standards Association and Via Licensing Corporation announced today a collaborative effort to foster patent licensing programs, also known as patent pools, for IEEE standards. The collaboration’s goal is to accelerate and broaden adoption of IEEE standards-based technologies.

The two organizations plan to build awareness of the benefits of patent pools in the IEEE-SA corporate stakeholder community. Via will administer the licensing programs that emerge from these efforts. These patent pools will bring together multiple entities who own patents essential to the practice of IEEE standards to license their individual Intellectual Property (IP) rights through a streamlined process. Read the full press release.