...standard grant licences to competing manufacturers. Manufacturers must sink a fixed cost to enter the market for standard compliant products, and are thus exposed to hold up when royalties are...
The theoretical analyses of patent pools almost exclusively assume that participation is automatic – any firm with a relevant patent and an option to join a patent pool is assumed...
National consumer protection laws, some of which date back to the 19th century and many of which date back to the 1960s and 1970s, often fail to address any of...
...paper, we describe and analyze empirical data collected from 118 educational experiences and practices about technology standards and standardization in 21 countries of a regional variety. Specifically, this research examines...
Theoretical and empirical analyses about informal consortia are not yet able to entirely illustrate the informal standard setting landscape. This paper tries to provide a broad and comprehensive picture of...
This article investigates the interplay between formal standards, essential patents and informal industry alliances such as consortia and patent pools. Building upon more than 6.200 declarations of essential patents to...
...rate of approximately 70%. Many participants included comments in their response. These comments have been included in the survey. The survey is a “snapshot” that reflects the views and opinions...
The goal of our research is to describe on which levels interoperability can take place between GILT and SW. Interoperability between open standards in these two fields is necessary and...
...implementing the standardized technologies covered by these patents before lock-in. As a result, costs to consumers can increase, competitors can be shut-out from the market, and the standardization process itself...
...sector. This rule would render suppression agreements per se legal in exchange for a commitment to release suppressed technologies into the public domain after a short time-frame, but would also...