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surfaced multiple times during the debate, for instance in the |
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speech of Mr Karsten Meinhold, chairman of the ETSI IPR Special |
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Committee, |
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who summarised it</a> as "<em>IPRs and Standards serve different |
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purposes: IPRs are destined for private exclusive use, Standards are |
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intended for public, collective use</em>".</p> |
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them. Or, as Tomoko Miyamoto, Senior Counsellor of the Patent Law |
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her presentation</a>: |
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Patent thickets and patent hold-ups may arise from |
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certain forms of legitimate exploitation of the exclusive rights |
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Suzanne Michel, Assistant Director Office of Policy and Coordination |
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of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission |
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(FTC) |
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pointed out in her presentation</a>. |
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The FTC had found that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rambus&oldid=251605519">Rambus |
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Incorporated</a> had joined and attended standardisation meetings of |
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which Charles Schulz of Ars Aperta summarised as RAND referring to |
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"RANDom licensing at the sight of competitors." |
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In |
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his presentation</a>, |
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Mr Schulz also pointed out that (F)RAND terms are |
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discriminating against Free Software. Even RAND terms linked to zero |
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all IT services and 4% of European GDP by 2010.</p> |
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<p>In |
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her presentation</a>, |
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Amy Marasco, General Manager Standards Strategy of |
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Microsoft, emphasised that she does not consider Free Software a |
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<p>Good patent research costs around 100.000 EUR per case according to |
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Rigo Wenning, Legal Counsel & Patent Policy Team Contact of the |
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W3C/ERCIM who spoke about |
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Standards, Patents and the Dynamics of Innovation on the Web</a>." The W3C is |
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indeed the only Standards Setting Organisation (SSO) that has a |
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sufficient patent policy for its standards in order to accomodate |
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damage can be caused by injunctions against a product, or claims for |
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damages. In |
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his |
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presentation of IBM's "SoftIP"</a> concept, Roger Burt, Senior Counsel of IBM |
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Europe introduces the issues with a quote from a BSA et al. Amicus |
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brief in eBay v MercExchange. The quote summarises the problems of |
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for the largest corporations was introduced by Tim Frain, Director |
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IPR regulatory affairs, Nokia in his presentation about |
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FRAND Best Practice</a>." |
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Mr Frain advocates a system based on "Aggregated |
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Reasonable Terms" & "Proportionality" (ART+P).</p> |
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the Division of Technical Regulations Department for WTO Affairs of |
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the Chinese Ministry of Commerce who raised the question of public |
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vs private benefit in his presentation titled |
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"<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=3632&userservice_id=1&request.id=0"> |
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Strike the Right Balance between Public and Private Interests in IPR in ICT |
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Standardization</a>".</p> |
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