It was ten years ago that the CIO of Massachusetts rattled the desktop world by announcing that the Executive Agencies of the Commonwealth would henceforth license only office suite software...
...arms around what open software (or Stallman’s Free and Open Software) really meant in all of its various connotations – license-wise, commercial and community. Or maybe you got involved before...
A growing chorus of voices is calling for the use of arbitration to resolve disputes concerning standards-essential patents (SEPs). Those advocating the arbitration of SEP-related disputes include academic commentators, government...
...IT industry under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology(MIIT). CESI develops scientific research for standards testing, measurement certification, and information service; provides professional support for the government’s strategic study,...
...of precommitments undertaken by firms. The coincidence between firms’ behaviour and social preference obtains either when competition is tough, since income is low, or when firms must compete in quantities...
U.S. legal changes have made it easier to obtain patents on inventions that use software. Software patents now comprise 15% of all patents. Compared with other patents, software patents are...
Inquiring into interconnection and interoperability is a bit like the search for justice. Everyone avows its virtue; but the agreement in principle conceals a host of divergent conceptions. And the...
...open formats are important, and incorporate them as part of a prudent and comprehensive effort to frame out an open and interoperable government IT framework, or did the suggestion come...
...“numerical proportionality”, QUALCOMM’s IP rights underlying WCDMA, a 3rd generation (“3G”) wireless communications standard, do not justify the level of royalties that dozens of companies, including most major wireless equipment...
This paper considers the problem of standard-creating coalition formation in an oligopoly. Cooperative R&D investments with the aim to improve product quality are explicitly taken into account. We obtain the...