Courts, commentators, and companies have devoted enormous time and energy to the problem of standard-essential patents (SEPs) – patents that cover (or at least are claimed to cover) industry standards....
For over thirty years, software copyright has been a succession of court cases and law review articles based on bad law, bad logic, bad mathematics, and/or bad physics (Benson, CONTU,...
Recent court cases regarding the regulation of computer software have held that such code may be protected expression under the First Amendment. Some courts have drawn on the law of...
Economic scholarship has recently focused a great deal of attention on the phenomenon of network externalities, or network effects: markets in which the value that consumers place on a good...
...examples: the government’s antitrust proceeding against Microsoft for browser tying, and Sun’s suit against Microsoft for altering Java. We conclude that the social value of the Internet lies in its...
...that examines the complete panoply of government powers to regulate and shape code. In the process, it insightfully bridges work in regulation to that within cyberspace law and communication technologies....
A report which summarizes the technology, challenges and future of RFID technology. The report explains the technology behind RFID technology, its prospects, privacy concerns, and spectrum allocation issues. Of significance...
At a time when the high-tech industry has increasingly demanded harmonized standards, China has signaled its intention to follow a different direction. China’s recent actions seeking to set its own...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze key changes in the institutional setting for standardization and to discuss what they indicate about further developments of the mobile telecom sector.
...proprietary control of information technology standards by entrepreneurs is changing the balance between private gain and public good. Post-information age standards offer the entrepreneur new ways to achieve commercial advantage...