A Year in the Life of a High Tech Standards Setting Organization

Richard Taffet, Partner with the New York office of Thelen Reid & Priest LLP., Dorothy Raymond, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Joseph Lavelle, Partner in the Washington D.C. office of Howrey Simon Arnold & White LLP., Mark Flagel, Partner with the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins., Richard Dagan, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Competition for Anti-competitive Practices, Federal Trade Commission., and Lisa Wood, Senior partner at the Boston law firm of Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP and is Chair of Sherman Act Section 1 Committee.

12/20/2007
(Original Publish Date: 4/25/2002)

The focus of “A Year in the Life of a High Tech Standards Setting Organization” is on the rights and obligations of a patent owner whose patent can preclude others from practicing a standard. A series of brief vignettes will be used to explore issues that can arise in the standards setting process. The brief vignettes will start with the formation of a standards setting organization, proceed through disputes over the nature and extent of any obligation to disclose patents and patent applications, followed by patent infringement litigation and counterclaims, and then conclude with an agency enforcement action. The perspectives of the different participants in the standards setting process will be presented to stimulate debate. In the process, practical advice will be provided by our panel of distinguished speakers.