...certain popular conceptions, such patents can be helpful in producing the best results in software standardization. Furthermore, regardless of whether a software standard itself is open, software patent pools that...
This article addresses the question of how to best develop standards for the information technology industry. While it may be possible to generalize our conclusions for other industry groups, the...
...kinds of remedies. The framework would, for example, apply to a court’s choice between damages and injunctive remedies or between behavioral injunctions and structural injunctions. After developing our framework, we...
This publication is the fourth edition of the “Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes” Manual and provides significant updates to the comprehensive 2006 edition. It examines in depth all areas of prosecuting...
The browser wars are probably the best-chronicled standards competition in recent history. Yet the standard lock-in model does not readily account for the dramatic change in fortunes of Microsoft. At...
...years reveals that trends are emerging among current standards participants – and allows us to suggest specific best practices and predictions that IT companies can use to compete more successfully....
Thousands of companies are members of hundreds of standard setting organizations (SSOs). The methods such company’s use for selecting these organizations are largely a mystery to those outside this small...
...them. The best standards bodies to create those standards will ultimately be decided by the marketplace itself, which can choose among a variety of entities with a range of processes...
...appropriate vehicle to generate reform in these areas. To the contrary, antitrust laws, which protect competition, not competitors, best operate to correct anticompetitive conduct when necessary, and on a case-by-case...
...the underlying conceptual model for a standard or family of related standards. They can also define precisely the relation among the components of both the standard being developed and other...