...of addressing the issue within IP law are explored. It is concluded that a compulsory licensing scheme as regards standards could be desirable. It may ensure that the incentive that...
...only U.S. President to have obtained a patent (which was still in force at the time he gave this speech). Today, scholars and lawyers often quote this passage from Lincoln’s...
Electronic commerce can be defined as the conduct of commerce in goods and services, with the assistance of telecommunications and telecommunications-based tools. The economic growth potential of e-commerce is extraordinary...
Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code and indirect...
...consumers to the protection of competitors. It requires access-pricing analysis that more resembles the work of a public utilities commission than that of a federal judge in an antitrust case....
This Comment addresses the question of whether claims brought under Section 2 of the Sherman Act based on allegations of deception of a Standards Development Organization (“SDO”) must meet the...
Antitrust law promotes competition in the service of economic efficiency. Government regulation may or may not promote either competition or efficiency, depending on both the goals of the agency and...
...as compared to non-integration. Horizontal integration of IP holders (or a patent pool) solves the complements problem but not the double mark-up problem. Vertical integration discourages entry and reduces innovation...
...how the problems that arise from context-dependant representation of facts can be mitigated by Semantic Web techniques, as tools of the conceptual framework developed over 15 years of COIN research....
The design of communication technologies is not autonomous, but is shaped by conflicting social groups. As a result, communication technologies may have different properties depending upon their designers. In this...