As the amount of cultural data available on the SemanticWeb is expanding, the demand of accessing this data in multiple languages is increasing. Previous work on multilingual access to cultural...
Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) use a consensus process to create new compatibility standards. Practitioners have suggested that SSOs are increasingly “politicized” and perhaps incapable of producing timely standards. This...
Little is known about the impact of standards on the economic development of countries which are latecomers to industrial manufacturing and innovation. Standardization is regarded primarily as a technical issue,...
Standard-setting organizations typically require FRAND commitments from owners of standard-essential patents in order to ensure the availability of technologies needed to practice the standard. Failure to observe these FRAND commitments...
...recent revelations of government surveillance underline, policy-making efforts for cloud computing are rendered particularly complicated by the shifting pattern of convergence and divergence of interests among users, providers, and governments....
...Despite the wide attention paid to the issue in the legal and academic circles, clarifications from the courts and the Commission on the actual meaning of a FRAND commitment have...
...safety, benefits, and testing standards. An individual who seeks access to this binding law generally cannot freely read it online or in a government depository library, as she can the...
We define tacit patent pooling as a non-contractual arrangement in which producers freely utilize one another’s patented technologies without charging license fees or filing infringement claims. This differs greatly from...
The paper analyses the dynamic procedures which work at the formation of international law in international organizations and conventional frameworks. These procedures organize and structure the interactive exercise of the...
...the nearest computer to find and read the texts that bind them. Lagging behind this development, however, has been computer access to standards developed by private standards development organizations, often...