State of the art: Frandly fire: Are industry standards doing more harm than good?

Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-29

  Treacy, Pat ^a   Lawrance, Sophie ^a  

^a Competition Department of London ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80855160762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17471540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jiplp/jpm212     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. US DOJ Business Review Letter, VMEbus International Trade Association, 30 October 2006.
2. Tech News, 28 March 2007.
3. The Register, 18 June 2007; this also relates to an IEEE standard.
4. The Inquirer, 2 August 2006.
5. Lucent Technologies Inc. v Gateway Inc., 02cv2060, US District Court, Southern District of California (San Diego).
6. Disputes involving standards lodged or ongoing in 2005-2007 include: Broadcom Corporation v Qualcomm Incorporated in the US District Court of New Jersey and before the US International Trade Commission ('US ITC');
7. Nokia v InterDigital in the English High Court; InterDigital complaint against Samsung Electronics before the US ITC;
8. In the Matter of Rambus Incorporated. Final Order and Opinion of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Remedy, 2 February 2007.
9. This question was considered by the US District Court of New Jersey in Broadcom Corporation v Qualcomm Incorporated, Civil Action No. 05-3350, judgment of 31 August 2006
10. Nokia Corporation v InterDigital Technology Corporation [2007] FSR 23.
11. Standard Tight-head Drum (Standard-Spundfass) Decision of the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court of Germany), 13 July 2004.
12. (see http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php? id=774809)
13. 'Towards a dynamic European Economy' Com (87) 290.
14. 'Standardisation in the European Economy' Com (91) 521.
15. Communication to ETSI 10th General Assembly, 6 March 1991.
16. The ETSI IPR Policy is available via the ETSI website: http://www.etsi.org/legal/home.htm
17. Commission Press Release IP/05/1565 of 12 December 2005 available on http://europa.eu
18. Commission Notice: Guidelines on the applicability of Art 81 of the EC Treaty to horizontal cooperation agreements [2001] C3/02, paragraph 174.
19. See Department of Justice Business Review Letters to VITA and IEEE dated 30 October 2006 and 30 April 2007 respectively (available on www.usdoj.gov)
20. See reference at footnote 10. For further details of this case, please see Kostenko M and Treacy P. The FTC issues remedy order in the Rambus matter. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. 2007; 2: 430-432.