Effective IPR Policies and Standards Organization Success
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Once upon a time, if you asked a standards setting organization what its intellectual property policy rights policy was, you’d get a simple answer: “We own the copyright in everything we produce.” Oh, to return to the good old days.
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Today, if an SSO that develops standards in the technology arena were to give an answer like that, it would find that its members were heading for the exits.
What’s changed, of course, is that information technology has infiltrated almost every aspect of our existence, and that includes standards development as well. For example, an SSO that used to limit its attention to setting construction standards relating to heating and ventilation installations will now also host working groups developing standards for sophisticated building control systems.
An unfortunate and complicating fact is that virtually every one of the technology standards that one of these SSOs creates has the potential to result in patent infringement when it is implemented. If you don't have the right rules in place to address that, you're setting yourself up for a world of hurt. Full Story |
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