FEATURED MEETING :
WORLD STANDARDS WEEK 2005:
STANDARD SETTING IN A CHANGING WORLD
THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF EUROPE AND ASIA
On October 5 from 2:00 – 5:00 PM, Kavi Corporation, ConsortiumInfo.org/ Gesmer Updegrove LLP, Virtual Management, and Jennings Strouss Salmon, will present an interactive analysis of the growing influence of Europe and Asia on technology standard setting organizations. The program takes place during World Standards Week October 3-7 in Washington, D.C. in conjunction with the ANSI Annual Conference.
Attendance is free but registration is required.
The program will feature two sessions, each with its own panel of experts, on the following topics:
Session I: Focus on Europe:
This session will analyze the most important recent developments in European standard setting policy and practice, including:
ETSI Investigation: Recently it came to light that the antitrust arm of the EC has been conducting a formal investigation into ETSI's IPR policy, seeking to determine if the policy creates an undue risk of "patent ambush" (i.e., the assertion of so-called submarine patents), and/or favors the interests of certain corporate members over others.
- What are the issues driving the EC action?
- Will the EC apply the same scrutiny and criteria to standard setting organizations, whether or not they are headquartered in Europe?
- Who may be next on the EC's list?
- What should your organization or corporate representatives do (and not do) in the future to steer clear of anti-trust or IPR policy trouble in Europe?
Open Source: The EU and European national governments have been moving much more forcefully in favor of open source software than their counterparts in the United States. From cities (like Munich) to countries (like Norway) to EU agencies, the commitment to open source software has been rising. At the same time, the EU has finally defeated an attempt to amend its patent laws to permit "American style" software patents.
- How far will this trend go?
- What does it mean for U.S. software vendors and users?
The panel will analyze the effect of these events and trends and will attempt to paint a clear picture of what it these developments mean for international vendors, and the standards development community as a whole.
Session II: Focus on China
After years of relative uninvolvement in global standard setting, China, Korea and Taiwan have awakened to the strategic importance of technology standards, Each country, and China in particular, has become very active in pursuit of alternatives to paying royalties to western companies.
- Is their strategy solely one of using standards to create trade barriers?
- How effective will/can the WTO process be to influence China's standards policies?
- How important is it to actively engage Asian players in existing SSO's?
- If Asian governments and companies do become more involved,, what are the risks and rewards of engagement?
- What are the practical and operational issues SSO's will face as they reach out to Asian member companies and make them equal partners in developing technology standards?
The panel will review the history of several current Asian standards initiatives (WAPI, TD-SCDMA) in detail in order to illustrate the impact of events to date, and predict what can be expected in the future.
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