The challenge is to improve enterprise integration, i.e. to move supply chains towards the goal of timely, appropriate, and seamless information flow among trading partners. While the true nature of...
...more firmly established and biosecurity practices governing commercial orders for synthetic DNA have been widely adopted. Among standards-setting groups within the synthetic biology community, most have expressed a preference that...
Structuring consortia requires an awareness of the antitrust, trademark, tax, technology ownership and other issues which are unique to consortium formation and operation. This article surveys those issues which are...
This article is a shorter version of ‘Standard Setting and Consortium Structures’. This version appeared in the May, 1995 issue of Geo Info Systems, and is copyrighted by that journal....
While small joint venture groups and large commercial ventures like Sematech preceded 1988, that year marked the initial explosion of private consortium formation. This article placed the new trend in...
...private consortia would facilitate the rapid, cost-effective and efficient evolution of the many new specifications and standards necessary to permit the NII to continue to develop and keep America competitive....
A provision of a recently enacted Federal law has given strong reinforcement to the standards movement, and could re-energize the formation of standard-setting consortia. The National Technology Transfer and Advancement...
This site follows US and international cases and other developments relating to antitrust laws and standards development. It includes helpful articles, links and other standards resources...
...intellectual property rights (IPRs). Competition agencies and commentators suggest specific changes to current SSO IPR policies to reduce incompleteness and favor an expanded role for antitrust law in deterring patent...
As recent studies on the evolution of a technology indicate, the role of a standard, or dominant design, is highly significant in a number of contemporary industries such as computer,...