Standards are ubiquitous and necessary says Josh Lerner the Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School and coauthor with Jean Tirole of. I  the Toulouse commonly shorten to the acronym FRAND. Disputes over crucial patents can impe innovation. Photo iStockPhoto School of Economics of the paper Standard Essential Patents pdf . In the free market where there s. I  a lot of entry of new firms and new players having the ability to sort things. I  out with standards is really important Lerner says.

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Standards are really important to US competitiveness. This line of research is about trying to figure out what s gone wrong and whether there is a way to try to fix it. Fair UAE Telegram Number Data Reasonable And Nebulous Many standard setting organizations require only that patent owners grant licenses on a fair reasonable and non discriminatory basis. The requirement is ubiquitous enough that it s The problem is that the licensors and licensees tend to have differing opinions about what constitutes fair and reasonable. Hence the spate of recent lawsuits. For instance last Septemr a feral jury rul in favor of Microsoft and against.

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Microsoft su Motorola for demanding excessive licensing royalties for SEPs relat to Wi Fi and video compression. Samsung Apple Nokia and Ericsson also have en involv in Cambodia Phone Number List major SEP relat litigation. with the ambiguity of the FRAND concept Lerner says. In Decemr for example the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE issu an amicus brief relat to a case in which telecom equipment giant Ericsson su Dell and six other hardware companies for patent infringement relat to the IEEE s . Wi Fi wireless standard. The brief also touch on the aforemention Microsoft vs. Motorola case.