ABSTRACT: Standards 2003: The Year in Review

Andrew Updegrove

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2004)

Web services initiatives exploded; the courts handed down surprise rulings on standard setting misbehavior, browser patents and public ownership of standards; Europe and China used standards to erect trade barriers; and royalty-free policies proliferated - to name just a few of the standards trends of 2003.