Editorial – Consortium Proliferation – Too Much Of A Good Thing?

Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP

2/27/2008
(Original Publish Date: 11/1/2006)

By my count, no fewer than 45 new consortia have been formed to date in 2006. To my knowledge, only a much smaller number of standard setting and promotional consortia have dissolved, ceased active operations or merged into other organizations. The result is that the ranks of the many hundreds of consortia already in existence continue to swell.