If code is law then standards bodies are governments. This flawed but powerful metaphor suggests the need to examine more closely those standards bodies that are defining standards for the...
This paper investigates several competition policy questions related to standard-setting organizations (SSOs). Are compatibility standards agreed upon by competitors generally in the public interest? Should competition policy generally favor patent-holders...
...question how similar or how different IP rights are, and should be, treated differently from property rights on tangibles both in theory and in practice. In the context of propertization...
...(investors and market interme-diaries) over the interests of the reports preparers (large audit firms and their managers). Nonetheless, the FASB remains vulnerable to the allega-tion that its complex, rules-based standards...
...job being substitutes for the purpose of signaling. Results naturally apply to other industries with high and low visibility jobs, e.g. academic rather than commercial research, consulting rather than management....
...adopted as an industry standard, however, that equation can change radically. Because of competitive necessity to practice the patented standard, particularly in industries characterized by network effects, the power potentially...
This Article contrasts the SSO with alternative standard setting processes, examines the importance of price competition in network effect driven markets, and asks how intellectual property and antitrust policy should...
...the risk of government failure is significant, and indeed greatest where the market is young and dynamic, as is the case with regard to the current market affected by information...
...network identity solution for the Internet that enabled single sign-on for consumers as well as business users in an open, federated way. *Dissolved and transferred operations and materials to the...
...providers, equipment manufacturers, and network operators to deliver new applications and services to consumers in their connected homes. In 2013, TAHI transitioned into the Smart Homes and Buildings Association: http://www.shaba.eu/...