Patent Pledge Database

The full dataset, including all metadata, can be downloaded as an Excel (.xlsx) file by selecting the spreadsheet in the file list and then clicking the blue “Access File” button. Latest version: 0. Patent Pledge Database - DeiC Dataverse - ver. 11-08-2026.xlsx The CeBIL research team, led by Dr.

Gabriela Lenarczyk in close collaboration with Professor Timo Minssen (CeBIL Director), will update the dataset quarterly and welcome community submissions of new pledges or errata. (Initial public release: V1, June 2025; subsequent versions will follow Dataverse semantic-versioning conventions.) Patent Pledge literature Jorge L. Contreras, Patent Pledges in Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law, Paul Torremans, Irini Stamatoudi, Peter K. Yu, Bernd Justin Jütte (eds.), Edward Elgar (2025), link Jorge L. Contreras, Patent Pledges as Portfolio Management Tools: Benefits, Obligations and Enforcement in A Modern Guide to Patenting.

Challenges of Patenting in the 21st Century, Nicholas Thumm & Knut Blind (eds.), Edward Elgar (Jun. 2025), link Chih-Chieh Yang, IP pledges and the good faith principle in civil law in The Interface of Intellectual Property Law with other Legal Disciplines, Christophe Geiger (eds.), Edward Elgar (May 2025), link Gabriela Lenarczyk, Mateo Aboy, OpenAI's Patent Pledge: A Post-Moderna Analysis, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 006 (2025), link Chih-Chieh Yang,IP pledges and the good faith principle in civil law in The Interface of Intellectual Property Law with other Legal Disciplines, Christophe Geiger (eds.), Edward Elgar (May 2025), link Jorge L. Contreras, The Prospects for Green Patent Commons in The Environmental Knowledge Commons: Cases and Lessons for Knowledge Sharing, Anjanette Raymond, Scott Shackelford, Jessica Steinberg, and Michael Mattioli (eds.), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2025), link Ziming Wang, Patent Pledge and Technological Innovation: The “Good Faith” of Tesla, EPRG Working Paper (2025), link Jorge L. Contreras, Voluntary Intellectual Property Pledges and COVID-19 in Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic, Haochen Sun & Madhavi Sunder (eds.), Cambridge University Press (Dec. 2024), link Gabriela Lenarczyk, Timo Minssen, Mateo Aboy, The nature, scope and validity of patent pledges, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 805, 19(11) (2024), link Gabriela Lenarczyk,Patent pledges na tle polskich instytucji prawnych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem licencji otwartej [‘Patent Pledges in the Context of Polish Legal Institutions, with Special Emphasis on Licences of Right’ book written in Polish] Publishing House of ILS PAS (2024), link Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Alfons Palangkaraya, Do Patent Pledges Accelerate Innovation?, Research Policy 52(5), (2023), link Yasuhiro Arai, Patent Pledges: Why Do Corportations Make Patents Available to the Public?, Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Occasional Paper Series, (2023), link Emanuel Slettengren, Lukas Wenger, Patent Pledges in the Automotive Industry, Master’s thesis in Intellectual Capital Management (2023), link Débora Cristina De Andrade Vicente, The Impact of Tesla’s Patent Opening, Master’s thesis in European Master in Law & Economics (2023), link Jorge L. Contreras, No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on Its Vaccine Patent Pledge, Bill of Health blog, Aug. 29, 2022, link Richard Li-dar Wang, Chung-Lun Shen, Tung-Che Wu & Wesley Wei-Wen Hsiao, A concise framework to facilitate open COVID pledge of non-disclosed technologies: In terms of non-disclosed patent applications and trade secrets, Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 121(8), (Aug. 2022), link Jorge L. Contreras, The Open COVID Pledge: Design, Implementation and Preliminary Assessment of an Intellectual Property Commons, 2021 Utah L. Rev. 833 (2021), link Ginevra Assia Antonelli, Maria Isabella Leone, Riccardo Ricci, Exploring the Open COVID Pledge in the fight against COVID-19: a semantic analysis of the Manifesto, the pledgors and the featured patents, R&D Management Special Issue: Providing solutions in emergencies: R&D and innovation management during Covid-19, 52(2) (2022), link Jorge L. Contreras, Michael Eisen, Ariel Ganz, Mark Lemley, Jenny Molloy, Diane M. Peters, Frank Tietze, Pledging Intellectual Property for Covid-19, 38 Nature Biotechnology 1146 (2020),link Jorge L. Contreras, Deconstructing Moderna’s COVID-19 Patent Pledge, Bill of Health blog, Oct. 21, 2020, link Jorge L. Contreras, Pledging Intellectual Property for Distributed Design in Viral Design – The COVID-19 Crisis as a Global Test Bed for Distributed Design (Distributed Design Platform, 2020), link Jonas F. Ehrnsperger & Frank Tietze, Motives for Patent Pledges: A Qualitative Study, CTM Working Paper Series, University of Cambridge (2019), link Jonas F. Ehrnsperger & Frank Tietze, IP Pledges, Open IP or Patent Pools?

Developing Texonomies in the Thicket of Terminologies, CTM Working Paper Series, University of Cambridge (2019), link Jorge L. Contreras, Bronwyn H. Hall & Christian Helmers, Pledging Patents for the Public Good: Rise and Fall of the Eco-Patent Commons, 57 Houston L. Rev. 61-109 (2019), link Jorge L. Contreras, The Evolving Patent Pledge Landscape, CIGI Papers No. 166, Apr. 3, 2018, link Natacha Estèves, Open models for patents: Giving patents a new lease on life?, The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 21(1-2) (Mar. 2018), link Jorge L. Contreras & Meredith Jacob (eds.), Patent Pledges: Global Perspectives on Patent Law’s Private Ordering Frontier, Edward Elgar (Mar. 2017), link Nils Tracy, Patent Pledges: Private Tool for Public Good, Duke Graduate Liberal Studies (Apr. 2016), link Catharina Maracke & Axel Metzger, Playing Nice with Patents: Do Voluntary Non Aggression Pledges Provide a Sound Basis for Innovation?, 17 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 483 (2016), link Jesse L Reynolds, Jorge L. Contreras, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property: Toward a Research Commons, 18 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 1 (March 2016), link Bassem Awad, Global Patent Pledges.

A Collaborative Mechanism for Climate Change Technology, CIGI Papers No. 81 (Nov. 2015), link Jorge L. Contreras, Patent Pledges: Middle Ground Between the Public Domain and Patent Exclusivity, 2015 Mich. St. L. Rev. 788-792 (2015), link Jorge L. Contreras, Patent Pledges, 47(3) Ariz.

St. L.J. 543-608 (2015), link Jorge L. Contreras, Tesla Motors and the Rise of Non-ICT Patent Pledges, Patently-O blog, Jun. 16, 2014, link Jorge L. Contreras, Samsung Proposes a Patent Pledge to Settle EC FRAND Investigation, Patently-O blog, Oct. 21, 2013, link Jorge L. Contreras, Non-SSO Patent Commitments and Pledges, Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, Oct. 14, 2013, link Diane M. Peters, Understanding Patent Pledges: An Overview of Legal Considerations, Open Source Development Labs, Inc.

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