...foreign business leaders and government officials. This study reviews the origins and motivations for China’s standards strategy, places it in the context of China’s accession to the WTO, and examines...
...overviews existing works on compatibility. It details a model on the effects of compatibility decisions in software development. It describes the application of this model to the cases of new...
...the introduced theoretical concepts. The paper analyses the growth and development of Linux and its development community, and shows how the development community evolves into an ecology of community-centered practices....
...accepted that globalization in reality involves complex processes of re-regulation. Far from entailing a shift to a `free’ world market, the global economy operates within a framework of multi-level governance....
...of the covenant, but on the mechanism of covenants not to sue generically, in contrast to complex licenses. Wednesday: The Computer & Communications Industry Association (or CCIA) sends a...
This paper looks at the relations that exist between standardisation and user-side innovation, and how the former may shape the latter. The necessary background information will be followed by a...
From bar rooms to board rooms the same concerns are heard. 1. We need standards, but only if they work. 2. We are afraid the wrong standards will become accepted....
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have provided much useful guidance to businesses and their counselors setting up and managing patent pools in recent years. We now all...
In the last 20 years, German courts have developed a sophisticated approach to compulsory licensing of patents. Compulsory licences under competition law are of particularly high relevance. In short, German...
This article interrogates the processes and politics of standard setting in human rights. It traces the history of the human rights project and critically explores how the norms of the...