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Dancing To The Beat Of A Different Drummer: Global Harmonization —And The Need For Congress To Get In Step With A Full Public Perforfance Right For Sound Recordings, John R. Kettle, Iii Mar 2002

Dancing To The Beat Of A Different Drummer: Global Harmonization —And The Need For Congress To Get In Step With A Full Public Perforfance Right For Sound Recordings, John R. Kettle, Iii

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Antitrust And The Costs Of Standard-Setting: A Commentary On Teece & (And) Sherry Symposium: The Interface Between Intellectual Property Law And Antitrust Law: Commentary, Mark R. Patterson Jan 2002

Antitrust And The Costs Of Standard-Setting: A Commentary On Teece & (And) Sherry Symposium: The Interface Between Intellectual Property Law And Antitrust Law: Commentary, Mark R. Patterson

Faculty Scholarship

The creation of an industry standard is a process that has much in common with the creation of a patented invention. Indeed, if standards are not patentable, it is only because of certain doctrinal peculiarities of patent law. It is therefore important to preserve the incentives for organizations to incur the costs of standard-setting activity, so that society may gain the benefits of the resulting standards. The law can preserve those incentives by treating the contributions of industry standards as distinct from those of inventions that are incorporated in them. More specifically, antitrust law should ensure that the patentees of …


Inventions, Industry Standards, And Intellectual Property, Mark R. Patterson Jan 2002

Inventions, Industry Standards, And Intellectual Property, Mark R. Patterson

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When an industry standard incorporates a patented invention, the demand for products that comply with the standard has two components. Some of the demand may be for the inherent technical advantages of the invention; the patentee is generally entitled to revenues attributable to this demand. But some of the demand is for the benefits of standardization, such as interoperability, and the patentee is not entitled to revenues attributable to this demand. From this point, the article draws two conclusions. First, the amounts to which a patentee is entitled, either in litigation or in licensing negotiations, should be calculated by determining …