...as underestimated. Nor do the royalty rates predicted by the holdup model apply if there is competition in the downstream product market or upstream market for inventions. Royalty stacking does...
The Internet has changed the way the world does business. Today, millions of people from around the world do research, shop, communicate, make travel and entertainment plans, play games, and...
...this essay attempts to explain, the open source and open standards movements are most closely related by their desire to allow competition to thrive based on merit, not market dominance....
Patented technology necessary for the use of a communications system, can create a monopoly. All that wish to use the patented communications system are legally required to pay the patent...
“Formal worldwide, regional and national Agencies for Communications Standardization” (FACS) such as the International Telecommunications Union and related formal agencies that standardize communications interfaces are losing standardization market share to...
Technical standards are basic to the exploitation of all technology. For almost 100 years, national and international standards development organizations (SDOs) have developed voluntary, consensus-based standards and reduced the need...
...specifications were developed in the 20th century to maintain monopolies. Now open standards may be used to maintain both competition and competitive advantage, which minimizes the potential for monopoly abuse....
The Global Information Highway (GIH) is society’s vision for the telecommunications systems that may one day provide nearly unbounded personal communications. To make this vision practical, telecommunications standards which define...
This paper develops a conceptual basis for a mathematical understanding of technical standards using Information Theory. Recognizing that a comparison is basic for communications, this paper proposes that commonality is...
The management of high technology communications companies often view public technical standards, as mechanisms that may reduce their market control and profit margins. This viewpoint has considerable historical precedent, but...