Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy

By: Keith Maskus

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Synopsis: Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communication Technology examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSOs) address patent disclosures, licensing terms, transfers of patent ownership, and other issues that arise in connection with developing technical standards for consumer and other microelectronic products, associated software and components, and communications networks including the Internet. Attempting to balance the interests of patent holders, other participants in standard-setting, standards implementers, and consumers, the report calls on SSOs to develop more explicit policies to avoid patent holdup and royalty-stacking, ensure that licensing commitments carry over to new owners of the patents incorporated in standards, and limit injunctions for infringement of patents with those licensing commitments. The report recommends government measures to increase the transparency of patent ownership and use of standards information to improve patent quality and to reduce conflicts of laws across countries.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780309293136
Publisher:: The National Academies Press
Date of Addition:: 03/07/14
Copyrighted By:: the National Academy of Sciences
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Communication
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.