"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?
and
Is there a way to write contracts to minimize problems surrounding an extended supply chain?"
From Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog.