Without the cubit, the pyramids could not have been built. Technical standards are the foundation of each technological advance. Each succeeding innovation is linked by reference to prior technical standards....
...identified by an emerging new class of technical standards. Technical standards throughout recorded history are a means to enable communications, inherent in all complex systems, and basic to communications engineering....
What is an “open standard” and why should we care? When Microsoft claims it offers “open standards”, that may be a good reason to learn what “open standards” means to...
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill, H.R. 1086, that would limit liability under the antitrust laws for qualifying Standards Development Organizations, increase the maximum individual and corporate criminal...
...royalty rates. The SEP-holders’ ability to hold-up is constrained by the prospect of the court-imposed license terms in case of disputes, but is not completely eliminated. Possible mechanisms to address...
In the spirit of Jurgen Habermas’s project of linking sociological observation with legal philosophy, this Article analyses the Internet standards processes – complex nongovernmental international rulemaking discourses. It suggests that...
Licensing technology essential to a standard can present a hold-up problem. After designing new products incorporating a standard, a manufacturer could be confronted by an innovator asserting patent rights to...
...companies have by and large focused on cooperating in pursuit of standards and specifications that seek to define a common method for handling everyday computing, networking, information-sharing and connectivity issues...
This article proposes a model for understanding the relationship between standards and the market success of new information technology. Its purpose is to spur research on these relationships, and to...
...In both legal systems, a remedy is the corrective measure that a court or an administrative agency orders following a finding that one or several companies had either engaged in...