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New Delhi, India, 19-20 December 2011
ITU Workshop on Standards and Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) Issues
Brad BiddleArizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
How Many Standards in a Laptop (and Other Empirical Questions)
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About the Authors
Brad BiddleAdjunct Professor and Research Fellow, ASU
Law Standards Counsel, Intel CorporationAndrew White and Sean WoodsStudents at ASU LawPaper and related comments reflect only our personal views
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5? 50? 500?
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Counted Interoperability Standards in Various Technical
AreasMemoryDisplayGraphicsWirelessSound Power
Input/Output (I/O)SecurityProcessorContent ProtectionSoftwareNetworking
(We know we missed some key areas)
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Excluded Other Kinds of Standards
PerformanceAccessibilityDesign ProcessManufacturing ProcessQuality
SafetyEnvironmentalMeasurementElectromagnetic compatibility
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“Standards”
Technical specifications produced and made available for 3rd party adoption by:1. Formal SDOs2. Consortia3. Individual companiesNot popular/dominant proprietary technologies
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SSO Framework
Standards Setting Organizations (SSOs)
Formal standards development orgs (SDOs)
Consortia (or Fora or
“SIGs”)
COMPANY Spec
licensing programs
Lightweight contractual SIGs, spec dev only
Complex nonprofit orgs w/ spec dev, C&I and marketing programs
Small accredited SDOs
ISO, IEC, ITU
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At least 251 – and probably closer to 500
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Two Additional QuestionsWho made these standards?SDO, Consortia or Company?What intellectual property rules govern these standards?[Fair,] Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory
(RAND) license commitment Royalty-Free (RF) (RAND-Z, RAND-Zero,
RF-RAND, non-assert, etc…)Patent Pool
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Only about 1/3rd produced by formal SDO
Who made these standards?
4911290
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Allocated into four “buckets” Caution: masks significant complexity
What IPR Rules Govern?
POOL (6)
RF (43)
RAND (148)
UNKNOWN (54)
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3/4th RAND, very few Pools
IPR Rules, Con’t
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Key Observations
~500 interoperability standards in a laptop!Importance of Consortia, Company specsHistorical dominance of RAND
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Other academic activity:
Annual standards symposiums at ASU2010: Consortia structure, SDO adoption of
consortia specs, ethical duties of participants, patent pools, disclosure
2011: Standards development processes/methodology, cooperation between SSOs, government policy, academic works-in-progress
Forthcoming paper re 2010 topics
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Questions/Discussion
Contact: [email protected] - http://biddle.us New Delhi, India, 19-20 December 2011
