...In a globalized economy, organizations will increasingly wish to know that their competitors are pursuing the same privacy principles. In a climate of “trading-up” free-riders will be increasingly exposed and...
...studies of free/libre/open source (FLOSS) communities demonstrate that the process of learning and adapting software enables users to become ‘creators of knowledge’ rather than mere passive consumers of proprietary technologies....
We discuss the formation of technical standards platforms in industries with network externalities where firms are free to choose their degree of technical compatibility with competitors. In our model, firms...
Research and development often go together like peanut butter and jelly. An issue of critical importance in the patent world, however, has pitted academic and research institutes against the business...
...patent owners thatparticipate in committees that establishindustry standards. Industry standards aretechnical rules agreed to and followed bymanufacturers of computer equipment andother products having components that needto communicate with one another....
In many technology-related markets, an industry standard will emerge to provide a common framework or format to ensure interoperability among related products and to foster the development of ancillary or...
Last December, government leaders such as Phillip Bond, US Undersecretary of Commerce, and Evangalos Vardakas, Enterprise Directorate of the European Commission, leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) vendors including IBM,...
In this column, I hope to provide some background on the overall importance and effect of spatial standardization on the industry and how current activities will change the nature of...
A source of considerable concern for companies selling products in the United States is the possibility of being sued for patent infringement in a US court. A finding of infringement...
NERA Vice President Bryan Ray examines the Patent Reform Act of 2007, which was passed by the US House of Representatives in September and is currently awaiting action by the...