...to economic development. Part IV examines some of the key WTO provisions regarding international standards. Part V looks at how WTO intergovernmental committees and bodies have implemented these provisions during...
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...
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...
...project. However, the benefits that could be realized from Smart Grid standardization are threatened by a growing number of patents that cover Smart Grid architecture and technologies. If patents that...
...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...
...(and mistakenly) conditioned to think of private property and private ordering as efficient in and of themselves, rather than as efficient only in the context of robust market competition. Further,...
The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, estab – lished in 1994, offers alternative dispute resolution services for international commercial disputes involving intellectual property. The WIPO Center has published model submission...
...manuscript so that it can be retrieved interactively. I encourage authors to deposit their papers in electronic form at a WWW, or FTP site, so that they are publicly available....