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GTW is a global source for news of strategic and tactical standards information updated occasionally below New Content October, 2012 |
| Some criteria of
performance of standards
development systems October 2012
A measure of
a system’s
or process’ relevance
and value in the most general sense, is that system’s or
process flexibility and
ability to adapt to current
needs and realities. In the case of “standards systems” measureable data indicative of such flexibility and ability can be statistics of the performance of the system to embrace “new” needs that require “new” solutions or changes to or abandonment of the “old” solutions. There exist such data sometimes deep within standards organizations about “new standards” approved; old standards revised or reaffirmed; and standards withdrawn. It is helpful to place such numerical counts in relative context to the “overall” population of standards within the mandate of the system |
| GTW President Willingmyre will present a paper the National Academies commissioned GTW Associates to prepare "Cooperation between Patent Offices and Standards Developing Organizations" at a Symposium on Management of Intellectual Property in Standard-Setting Processes sponsored by the National Academies, October 3 & 4 in Washington DC. |
| The availability of remedies for owners of
Intellectual Property who
have made commitments to license that IP under
RAND terms has become a contentious issue.
GTW Associates replied July 9 to a question posed in a June 29 Federal Register by the International Trade Commission, “8. Does the mere existence of a RAND obligation preclude issuance of an exclusion order? …” The GTW submission stated in part: GTW Associates believes the mere existence of a RAND obligation does not preclude issuance of an exclusion order. However the facts of any particular situation need examination and may result in a decision a patent holder who has made a RAND declaration does not deserve an exclusion order. GTW elaborated, “This is not to say that a patent owner may not make a voluntary statement in addition to a RAND assurance that he will not seek an injunction against infringers …This is also not to say that an SDO may not create or revise its patent policy in order to REQUIRE a patent holder to state he will forgo the remedy of an injunction.” |
| A task group of the ANSI
Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee (ANSI IPR PC) is
contemplating the words in the ANSI
patent policy regarding disclosure of essential
IP.
The present wording does not require disclosure, but describes what is to happen when the situation arises: If an ANSI-Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) receives a notice that a proposed ANS or an approved ANS may require the use of such a patent claim, the procedures in this clause shall be followed. The ANSI IPR PC meets November 8 & 9, 2012 |
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