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IP Licensing Survey

It has been documented that the semiconductor IP (SIP) licensing period can take more than 22 weeks! GSA's IP Working Group is attempting to reduce the negotiation time and cost required to complete an average SIP licensing agreement by collecting information from IP suppliers and buyers. It is believed that if both sides of the negotiation table have a better understanding for what is reasonable and customary, then the negotiation process will be easier.

GSA is conducting a quarterly survey to gather data and publish results to aid in the semiconductor IP negotiation process between buyers and suppliers. The aggregated results will only be available to quarterly participants and all data will be kept confidential (i.e., participants will not be mentioned by name or company name).

The survey is currently open for all CYQ4 IP contract negotiations (October 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011).

DEADLINE: February 14, 2012 11:59PM CST

Personal Information

First Name
Last Name
Title
Company
Email

Company

Company Size/Type:

Large IP Supplier Medium IP Supplier Small IP Supplier
Large IP Buyer Medium IP Buyer Small IP Buyer

Royalties

1. What percent of contracts completed included a royalty component?

% (Numbers Only)

Warranty / Maintenance Period

2. Maintenance/support period? (Percent (%) of contracts completed)

a. 0 - 5.9 months
%
b. 6 - 11.9 months
%
c. 1 year
%
d. More than 1 year
%
Total
% (Automatically Calculated)

3. Is the IP buyer required to buy maintenance? (Percent (%) of contracts completed)

Yes
%
No
%
Total
% (Automatically Calculated)

Patent Indemnification

4. Indemnity negotiated? (Percent (%) of contracts completed)

a. Complete Indemnity
%

b. Exclude Some Industry Standard Patents

%

c. Exclude Some Territories

%
d. No Indemnity
%
e. Other
% Explain

Total Supplier Liability (Not Including Breaches)

5. Total liability negotiated? (Percent (%) of contracts completed)

(Total liability, not including breaches of confidentially, or distribution, etc.)

a. Zero Liability
%
b. Between 0 and 1X
%
c. 1X
%
d. Between 1X and 2X
%
e. Above 2X
%
f. Total Business Percent
%
g. Uncapped
% Comments
Total
% (Automatically Calculated)
6. The negotiation process for: Big
Issue		 Small
Issue		 No
Issue
a. Support / maintenance period is:
b. Patent indemnification is:
c. Supplier liability is:
d. Modification rights is:
e. Use of contractors is:
f. Security of information is:

Bonus Question

7. IP suppliers are increasingly licensing complete subsystems with pre-integrated individual hardware IP blocks and software.

a. What percentage of contracts completed included subsystems with pre-integrated hardware IP blocks?

Percent

b. What percentage of contracts completed included pre-integrated software together with the hardware subsystem?

Percent

c. In the coming year, by what percentage do you expect your company's licensing of pre-integrated hardware/software subsystems to increase or decrease?
Decrease
Increase <50%
Increase between 50-100%
Increase >100%

8. Other issues:
MEMS Executive Congress InfoTech MEMS Investor Journal TSMC_Jan2012
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