Keep Your SSO Promises: What You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You

Extract

---

Keep Your SSO Promises: What You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You

Companies involved in the research, design and development

of new technologies often participate in standards setting

organizations (SSOs) which focus on the standardization of such

technology. Participation in SSOs allows companies to keep

up-to-date on industry developments, to target product

development toward standards compliant products and to steer

research and intellectual property development into potential

areas of future standardization. However, participation comes

with obligations.

One common obligation concerns the handling of intellectual

property rights (IPR). While each SSO has its own rules and

regulations, virtually all have some form of IPR disclosure and

licensing obligations. A first obligation t...

See the full content of this document

---