...and engaged in multiple cross-licensing deals, and the Have-Nots, entrepeneurs, small and medium enterprises, and software users from the student using GNU/Linux all the way to institutional users in governments....
New players in global trade may be quietly shifting the center of gravity for international standard setting. An expert in standards analysis explains the implications and provides some tips for...
...since market competition among competing platform technology owners will usually protect consumers quite well. Voluntary interoperability at various levels is the norm, an arrangement facilitated by the fact that property...
The traditional argument that shorter product cycles favor trade secret over patenting is reviewed. A game theoretic model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file...
...wrong. Under a certain set of conditions which are prevalent in international telecommunications, the distribution of standard setting to a multitude of competing standards organizations is both stable and efficient....
...organization’s willingness to distance itself from the centralized planning notions that arise from its command-and-control approach to spectrum allocation and allotment and (2) an ensuing increased commitment by the United...
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...
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...
...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...