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Common elements to open access schemes
Involve patents
- to enforce rights against abuse by others
Provide access to collection of patent rights
- management of IP collection required
- agreements, licenses
- some situations require valuation of IP
Need to ensure non-competitive behaviour
- independent third part expert review may be required
Incentive to join - needs to be < cost of not joining
- need to capture key IP
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