...pool allows interested parties to gather all the necessary tools to practice a certain technology in one place, e.g, “one-stop shopping”, rather than obtaining licenses from each patent owner individually....
...Council of Research and Technology. The titular goal of the RFI is to assist the Sub-Committee in assessing the “Effectiveness of Federal Agency Participation in Standardization in Select Technology Sectors.”...
...Act (NTTAA). That Act directed government agencies to abandon the practice of developing “government unique” standards, to utilize private sector standards wherever practicable, and to participate in private sector standards...
...evidence on the effects of patent pools on innovation; nineteenth-century data, however, indicate that pools that operate in the absence of restrictions on anti-competitive practice discourage innovation. This paper examines...
...In this paper we examine the role of social norms and ask whether they serve as a complement to or substitute for formal legal institutional arrangements. We posit that in...
...vested interest in promoting open technical standards adhering to principles of transparency, cost efficiency, and interoperability. This paper examines various possibilities for governments to engage with information and communication technology...
Although there is a lack of quantitative evidence on expected cost savings from adopting open standards there are abundant examples where an open standards policy has been adopted with consequent...
...to implement its commitment to “creating a common and secure IT infrastructure based on a suite of compulsory open standards, adopting appropriate open standards wherever possible” (Government ICT Strategy, published...
This policy explains how the UK government selects open standards for software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT. It also guides UK government departments on how to implement...
...against that party is discharged. We explain how our proposed FRAND regime would work in practice. Many of the disputes currently arising around FRAND commitments become moot under our approach....