The National Cooperative Research and Production Act (NCRPA) provides an important level of immunity from the economic impact of antitrust sanctions, but it is uncertain which, if any, standard setting...
...exploit their licenses. In addition to their pro-competitive effects, patent pools can also have a number of anti-competitive effects. Competition authorities need to look closely at the exact conditions set...
...the highest level of innovation precisely because we as a nation committed long ago to a policy of vigorous but sound antitrust enforcement. Moreover, I believe that antitrust enforcement will...
...American standards community to reevaluate its infrastructure. The National Institute of Standards and Technology may step up its role in order to negotiate at a governmental level with the EC....
...selection among competing networks. Our discussion follows this relative emphasis. We briefly consider the issue of levels of network activities in section two, then turn to the choice of networks....
...audio, video, animation, data) in a common network and terminal infrastructure, telecommunications and networked-computing applications are no longer distinguishable. Considering that the old terminology is no longer meaningful, we attempt...
...between complementary products and even between the various parts of a particular product. In short, standards determine how things work. When considered at this most basic level, it is clear...
...a single standard. We determine a threshold level such that for lower follow-on investment outlays development of both standards is optimal while for higher investment levels development of a single...
On a very abstract level, an information system consists of a set of system elements which communicate with each other. Communication is an unproductive operation, so the time needed to...
This article presents the (hi)story about the Nordunet project and its “plug.” This is a (hi)story about how the Internet “won” the “religious war” about computer communication protocol standards in...