Books
Jorge L. Contreras & Meredith Jacob, eds., Patent Pledges: Global Perspectives On Patent Law’s Private Ordering Frontier (Edward Elgar, 2017) (IPKat’s Best Patent Law Book of 2018), https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/patent-pledges-9781785362484.html
Articles (in chronological order)
Diane M. Peters, General Counsel, Open Source Development Labs, Understanding Patent Pledges: an Overview of Legal Considerations. https://patentcommons.org/publications/OSDL_Whitepaper_Final_final_4-12-06.pdf (2006)
Lydia Pallas Loren, Building a Reliable Semicommons of Creative Works: Enforcement of Creative Commons Licenses and Limited Abandonment of Copyright, 14 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 271 (2007), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=957939
Jorge L. Contreras, Patent Pledges, 47(3) Ariz. St. L.J. 543-608 (2015), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2525947
Jorge L. Contreras, A Market Reliance Theory for FRAND Commitments and Other Patent Pledges, 2015(2) Utah L. Rev. 479-558 (2015), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2309023
Marta Belcher and John Casey, Hacking the Patent System: A Guide to Alternative Patent Licensing for Innovators, Juelsgaard Intellectual Property & Innovation Clinic at Stanford Law School (January 2016), https://www.eff.org/document/hacking-patent-system-2016
Jesse L. Reynolds, Jorge L. Contreras & Joshua D. Sarnoff, Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property: Toward a Research Commons, 18 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 1-110 (2017), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2753833
Jorge L. Contreras, The Evolving Patent Pledge Landscape, CIGI Papers No. 166, Apr. 3, 2018, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3157572
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), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3466156
Jonas Fabian Ehrnsperger & Frank Tietze, Patent pledges, open IP, or patent pools? Developing taxonomies in the thicket of terminologies. PLoS ONE 14(8): e0221411 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221411
Web sites
Creative Commons, CC0 “No Rights Reserved”, https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/
American University Washington College of Law – Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Standards-Essential Patents and FRAND Licensing, https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/impact/patent/