The Performance of Standard Setting Organizations: Using Patent Data for Evaluation
The Performance of Standard Setting Organizations: Using Patent Data for Evaluation
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标准制定组织的绩效：利用专利数据进行评估
DOI：
10.4018/jitsr.2007010103
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2007
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通讯作者：
Aura Soininen
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作者：
Aura Soininen
据报告，在许多案例中，专利在合作制定标准方面造成了困境。例如，关于GSM、WCDMA和CDMA标准，问题已经出现。此外，JPEG和HTML标准以及VL总线和SDRAM技术都面临着与专利有关的困难。然而，可以说，只有一小部分标准化工作出现了复杂情况，因此专利并不构成真实的困境。本文通过简要分析ICT企业的专利战略和技术许可实践与标准制定的关系，并在相关文章、学术研究论文、诉讼案例和网上讨论的基础上，举例说明和量化问题，评估ICT领域专利困境的程度和原因。对所谓的海底专利给予了特别的注意，这对有关专利制度效力的普遍政策关切具有最重要的意义。
Multiple cases have been reported in which patents have posed dilemmas in the context of cooperative standard setting. Problems have come to the fore with regard to GSM, WCDMA, and CDMA standards, for example. Furthermore, JPEG and HTML standards, as well as VL-bus and SDRAM technologies, have faced patent-related difficulties. Nevertheless, it could be argued that complications have arisen in only a small fraction of standardization efforts, and that patents do not therefore constitute a real quandary. This article assesses the extent and the causes of the patent dilemma in the ICT sector through a brief analysis of how ICT companies’ patent strategies and technology-licensing practices relate to standard setting and by exemplifying and quantifying the problem on the basis of relevant articles, academic research papers, court cases and on-line discussions. Particular attention is paid to so-called submarine patents, which bear most significance with respect to the prevailing policy concern regarding the efficacy of the patent system.