Updating a Patent Policy: The IEEE Experience

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Michael Lindsay, Konstantinos Konstantinos, Mar 31, 2015

The pages of this two-part issue of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle provide one more example of the continuing and wide-ranging debate about the intersection of patents and standards. Debate can certainly be healthy, but standards development organizations live in the real world—one in which courts and regulators have criticized existing SDO policies as lacking clarity. At s