Authored by: 400guy on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 12:54 PM EDT |
Anon asked …
why would any company offer it's patents
to a standards body?
One obvious possible answer: the
company expects to profit more by competing in a large market than by keeping
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Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 03:32 PM EDT |
I'd hope that the companies marketing department was smarter than that.
'Look our patent is so good it's in standard A, now why don't you licence it
from us for product B'
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Beware of him who would deny you access to information for in his heart he
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 09:11 PM EDT |
The simple fact is that a lot of standards, especially in the hardware world,
depend on complex technology that is legitimately patented.
This cannot possibly be true.
When you are producing a standard, the whole point of the exercise is that
ANYONE skilled in the art can produce a conforming product. There is NO need,
none whatsoever, for ANYONE to consult ANY information contained in ANY possible
patent.
(What would I know? I produced my company's official review response to one
proposed ANSI standard; and shepherded several company products through official
tests designed to test conformity. (In all cases, with no deviations found.)
At no time did I ever stop and think, "how did they expect us to do
THAT?" It was always "OK, so they want THAT--not what we were doing,
but it'll be easy enough to change things to do it their way."
Any standard that doesn't elicit that response can't function as a standard. And
everyone that works on a standard knows that.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 08 2012 @ 03:32 PM EDT |
There is nothing to stop entities from developing patented items that meet
standards requirements. It would just stop them blocking competition and
development of better products by others. A standard should never be subject to
patent fees.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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