The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that standards and conformity assessment impact more than 80% of global commodity trade. From design and manufacturing to distribution and marketing, all traded products...
...academia, there is a pervasive belief that technology-based companies can be divided into three tiers: third-tier companies make products; second tier companies make technology; and first tier companies make standards....
...Hesse suggestions would impose burdens on patent holders, and in some instances the combination of those burdens might be enough to discourage patent holder participation in standards development. Moreover, some...
...associations in China often enables them to exert a greater influence on the market competition than their counterparts in mature market economies. Trade associations have figured largely in China’s competitive...
...offers that he makes to the patent holder will affect the royalty rate that the Court may adopt as well as the probability of being subject to injunctions (and the...
We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members. Our analyses utilize membership data from 32 consortia in wireless telecommunication technology subfields...
This paper studies the intellectual property strategy of firms that participate in the formal standards process. Specifically, we examine litigation rates in a sample of patents disclosed to thirteen voluntary...
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently closed its investigation of Google, following a thorough analysis of numerous aspects of Google’s business conduct. The Proposed Consent Order into which the FTC...
...a fair comparison, a matched control set of patents was developed. We consider and compare the citation performance, the family size, and the patent grant likelihood. The final four chapters...
Supported five major wireless technologies and their 3G migration (North America/South America) *Now 5G Americas 3G Americas supported the wireless technologies TDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS (WCDMA). *Now 5G...