Co-opetition licenses and arrangements

In another episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher speaks with two fellow tech lawyers Elisabeth Vestin from Stockholm, Sweden and Harry Rubin from New York, USA. Their topic at the round table session of the 6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference in Berlin will be "Co-opetition licenses and arrangements". We discuss what role co-opetition arrangements play nowadays and what potential controversial issues there are. After quickly lying out that co-opetition is an agreement of co-operation between competitors, we discuss that there might be antitrust issues, but that the real problems are of contractual nature. We speak about best practices in confidentiality as well as licensing.