Title
Antitrust Division Gives IEEE Standard Setters the Okay to Ask Patentees How RAND They Are
Author
Richard Stern
Date
8/08/2008
(Original Publish Date: 5/30/2007)
(Original Publish Date: 5/30/2007)
Abstract
The policy of the IEEE has long been to avoid embodying patented technology in IEEE standards unless the technology would bemade available to users of the standard on reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) royalty terms and conditions. But a recurrent problem has beenthat,once a standard was in place, the patentee and the standard users would have different ideas about what was RAND.
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