Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy - Lessons from Information and Communications Technology

A report on the role of patents in standard-setting processes in an international context. Also includes presentations and an agenda from a two-day symposium on topics addressed in this report held in Washington, D.C. on October 3-4, 2012, titled Management of Intellectual Property in Standard-Setting Processes.

Summary

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, and associated software and components.

Product details

• Authors: Technology Board on Science, Board on Science Technology and Economic, Board on Science Technology and Economic Policy, Committee on Intellectual Property Manag, Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes, National Research Council, Policy And Global Affairs
• Assisted by: Keith Maskus (Editor), Keith E. Maskus (Editor), Stephen A Merrill (Editor), Stephen A. Merrill (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9780309293129
• ISBN: 978-0-309-29312-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education