This paper traces the history of open content technologies in an effort to understand the nature and significance of intelligent content. What is illustrated is that a common thread runs...
...International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC,founded in 1906 and considered an autonomous part of ISO since its founding in 1946)as well as a the larger principal of voluntary consensus standard setting” which...
In Schumpeterian terms, entrepreneurship is a force of creative destruction, and entrepreneurs are risk-takers who pioneer an innovation – typically a technological innovation but also possibly an organizational innovation. Such...
This article examines the patent hold-up problem through the lens of recent litigation involving alleged abuses within standard-setting organizations (SSOs). In Rambus v. Federal Trade Commission, a case addressing antitrust...
...Supreme Court denied the Commission’s petition. This article examines some deficiencies in the Commission’s arguments, concluding ultimately that the Supreme Court was correct to deny review. Moreover, the article suggests...
...of information science and its relation to standards development. In their description of present activities, they focus on the activities of ANSI’s Accredited Standards Committee X3, Computers and Information Processing,...
...technology, both in negotiating the standard and seeing it through to commercialization. This is the first case of a developing country both originating and successfully negotiating a telecommunications standard and...
The emergence of a global information architecture has fueled regulatory competition among nations and regions to set information and communication technology (ICT) standards. Such regulatory competition can be thought of...
Much has been written – especially in recent years – regarding the perceived problem of “over patenting” within cooperative standard setting. Because standards are thought to frequently convey market power...
...right holder to arbitrarily discriminate the access to the protected information, it seems to be inherently incompatible with the efficient development of public, non-discriminatory and well-understood compatibility standards. Literature studying...