...Windows software to illegally extend the company’s dominance to other products. Essentially, Judge Jackson has accepted this assertion, finding that “Microsoft enjoys market power in the relevant market” and has...
This paper examines – from the viewpoint of an empowered, embedded, and usually neutral observe – the struggle between consortia and Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) for hegemony in the standardization...
...on, and draws its sources from, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. It is based upon experiential data, rather than research data, gained from constant and substantial activity within...
Because the ITC can’t award damages, it has granted injunctions as a matter of course. But as we suggest in this paper, the Commission has more power to adjust the...
...dependencies across components, conforming to different standardization regimes, are continually bridged through intermediary services (e.g. using a protocol adapter that translates to an emergent standard), (b) The dependencies across components...
...provide geographic indication protection in the U.S.), but rather socially responsible practices within a global administrative framework. The “branding” aspect of this decentralized, privatized regulation raises the likelihood of slippage...
On June 22, 2004, President Bush signed into law H.R. 1086, which includes the Standards Development Organization Advancement Act of 2004 (“the Act”). The Act amends the existing National Cooperative...
We discuss some frequently neglected issues relating to corporate communication infrastructures. The perception of services like e-mail as infrastructural — and thus less interesting — lies at the heart of...
While patents can be powerful business assets, it’s easy to confuse patent licenses with technology licenses. The reality of patent power in the business world is often limited, and, in...
...of the logistics environment. Subsequently, a brief overview of the project’s technical design choices and is given, followed by a more detailed discussion of the individual components of this architecture....