...community could take, but an OSS patent pool is the best way for the OSS community to leverage both teh patent system and the OSS culture to help protect the...
...capitalize on its popularity; (2) the bait and switch ploy where a patentee encourages adoption by offering royalty-free use of standard-related patents, and then, after the standard has gone into...
...associated with 197 of the standards are assessed: 75% were developed under “RAND” terms, 22% under “royalty free” terms, and 3% utilize a patent pool. The authors make certain observations...
...what Langlois and Robertson (1995) call “business institutions.” But few have thought about the choice of business institution as a competitive weapon. This essay will examine, and attempt to learn...
...Ltd. Its mission was to facilitate UK electronic commerce by promoting business data standards from EAN International and market-driven information exchange standards. Its approach included: helping members adopt best practices;...
...interoperability profiles, implementation guidelines and best practices for interoperability between UC products and existing communications and business applications. *Merged with IMTC in 2014, which then merged with MEF in 2017....
...a member, as compared to the target of Alliance output. Companies: There are no new Fortune 500 members, but there are scores of new companies from many sectors. The largest...
This article proposes a model for understanding the relationship between standards and the market success of new information technology. Its purpose is to spur research on these relationships, and to...
...business, (6) the costs of experimentation in standard-setting, and (7) economies from network externalities. Argument examined on the other side include how competition will (1) help meet the needs of...
Market selection of product compatibility standards has long been explained through aggregate positive-feedback theoretical models of economic utility. Explaining aggregate patterns of organizational standards adoption requires two additional steps —...