...patenting and standardisation process. To achieve this, a structured cooperation and exchange of per se public information between patent and competition authorities as well as formal standardisation bodies is necessary....
...lack of reasonable access to that technology for the research anddevelopment of commercial products and for further basic biological research. One possiblesolution lies in the formation of patent pools. Part...
Standardization – that is, the making of a product or service common across an industry – is one of those uneasy practices which sits on the cusp between marketing and...
...to describe the practice of companies routinely ignoring patents and resisting patent owner demands, because the odds of getting caught are small. Hold-up has arguably predicted the current patent crises...
The need for a standards-based approach is a key component of the implementation of the Canadian government’s strategy for electronic commerce, i.e., “For electronic commerce to be globally adopted, common...
...development process. The paper details the authors’ proposal toward for public policy assessments within the context of one standards body – the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It then examines...
...particularly in the field of telecommunications. The legislative process is driven largely by powerful competing special interests, and it has ultimately played only a minor role in policymaking, with a...
...can and has to some extent already been implemented in most of Dutch technology policy and is a focal point of OECD comparative analysis (best practice, bench marking), it is...
...“excessive” or “unreasonable” prices based on a patent holder’s practice of charging royalties as a percentage of the end-user product as opposed to a component product such as the chipset...
...upon the management of information systems, such as through the network effects and switching costs created by the supply of specialized complementary assets. It concludes with suggestions for future research....