Editorial: It’s Time for IPR Equal Opportunity

Andrew Updegrove

12/20/2007
(Original Publish Date: 8/1/2007)

The developed world enjoys many advantages over developing nations, including some that are not so obvious — such as disproportionate benefits from standard setting, fueled in part by the vast patent portfolios of multinational corporations. Unless a greater effort is made to adopt royalty free standards, the result may be a future filled with international standards wars.