THE FUTURE OF LICENSING: Electronic News sat down to discuss the future of licensing intellectual property with various experts, and have published excerpts of the conversation. Among the questions answered were:

What’s different about licensing IP versus other types of licensing?

Where are the hot spots in the intellectual property world?

What happens with a system on a chip, where the intellectual property is coming from a variety of vendors and being built by subcontractors of subcontractors?

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Is there a way to write contracts to minimize problems surrounding an extended supply chain?