Pool863 is an Italian startup that aims to develop interdependent models in ICT, mobile, and web. It notes that the innovation process is often split into worthless transitions or influenced by overlapping patents, leading to expensive conflicts. Pool863 proposes promoting patent pools and incentive systems for licensing to encourage technological cooperation in a pro-competitive way, especially in fast-developing sectors like ICT, mobile, and web. This could benefit small companies and inventors by creating common spaces and facilitating knowledge diffusion through open licensing models.

1. Pool863 is a start-up with head office in Perugia (Italy) Via Oberdan, 56. Has the
objective to develop models of organisation in areas of ICT, mobile, web, which are
interdependent on each other. Pool863 notes the following observations with the main
purpose to underline the need for incentives to technology cooperation to be
considered as a necessary and essential development aspect factors. Too often the
innovative process reveals to be split up in too many and worthless transitions, or
influenced by the proliferation and however by the coexistence and often the
interdependence of many patents referring to the same invention or to complementary
ones, and this brings to expensive conflicts, or to mutual and crossed vetoes with a big
damage for the competitors and consumers (C. Shapiro describes the innovative
process in the sectors that deals with "pyramid of blocks", http://haas.berkeley.edu/-
shapiro/tbicket.pdf, I). A solution to such factors that restrain the development shall
not be provided by more or less episodic agreements turned to sharing technology ,
that the industries of the sector should (or should not) find, but it is necessary to give
structure keys that can generate virtuous behaviours. It is the contribution of analysis
which it intends to provide pool863. We must understand such general phenomenon
and anticipate and regulate the development processes. lt is for this purpose that the
technological cooperation should be encouraged, in a pro-competitive function,
foreseeing the instruments that could orient the participants' behaviour. This is
obviously more relevant in key sectors as ICT, mobile, web characterized by a very
quick development and obsolescence. Starting from the progressive acquisition of
these fields, one of the most important challenge for innovation and also and above all
the way out from the crisis and the process of transnational cohesion, extremely
necessaries, is carried out.
The project that pool863 imagines and proposes is the promotion of patent pool
or at least the promotion of proper incentives for licenses systems modelled after
clearing house schemes, to which devolve the regulation of payment operations
and the intermediation for right management. This instrument could be
addressed to small or medium sized companies or to inventors that, not having
the possibility to introduce or defend individually their innovations, could be
advantaged from the creation of common spaces, of commons, from the
participation of a collective project. Concretely, it could be considered the
establishment at least of a platform, or virtual forum for all information
exchanges, without any distinctions, including not patentable technical
knowledge, related to a certain innovation process. Those mechanisms could
facilitate the knowledge diffusion easily reachable on the base of the model opens
source or on standard licenses agreement and "FRAND" . Those organisational
processes are functional to the information and ideas collection even if these
ideas are not patentable. Or if, for the highly level of fragmentation, they could
be exploited exc1usive1y through negotiation and sharing and general perception
systems. Pool863 finally imagines opens source mechanisms, voluntary license or
sublicense models, even free of charge, could be defined.