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The Standards Blog tracks and explains the way standards and open source software impact business, society, and the future. This site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a technology law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. GU is an internationally recognized leader in creating and representing the organizations that create and promote standards and open source software. The opinions expressed in The Standards Blog are those of the authors alone, and not necessarily those of GU. Please see the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for this site, which appear here. You can find a summary of our services here. To learn how GU can help you, contact: Andrew Updegrove

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Copyright Licenses Are Key When Including Software in Standards

10/04/2022

The following article was co-written with Michele Herman of JustTech

Open source software and open standards have many similarities but  the legal frameworks under which each are created have real and important differences.  Nonetheless there is an increasing desire to …

Department of Commerce Gives Industry What it asked for Regarding the Entity List

9/15/2022

The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added Chinese 5G technology giant Huawei to its Entity List more than three years ago. The immediate result was the spread of uncertainty and doubt among the hundreds of …

War and the Power of Standards

3/02/2022

The unleashing of unprovoked acts of violence against the people of Ukraine has both horrified and united much of the world against Russia. Even historically neutral Switzerland has condemned Putin’s aggression. And aid is flooding into the beleaguered democracy from …

Six Standards Recommendations for the Biden Administration

9/10/2021

It is now seven months since Joe Biden took office. During that time, his administration has announced many positions and policies while continuing to work on others. One policy area previous administrations have too often neglected relates to standards, despite …

Biden Administration Signals Reversal Of Delrahim Position on Standards Essential Patents

7/14/2021

Nestled within the Biden administration’s recent, sweeping Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is a small, rather oblique paragraph that has garnered little attention to date. Appearing as Section 5(d), it urges the Attorney General and the …

Welcome to the New ConsortiumInfo.org

3/17/2021

It’s been almost twenty years since ConsortiumInfo.org first went live, and eighteen since I posted my first Standards Blog entry (since then, the first two years of blog posts have mysteriously disappeared). It was a pretty humble offering back in …

Effectiveness of Voter Security Standard in Doubt – Or Is It?

2/19/2021

It’s been fifteen years since the federal best practices standard for voting machines was last amended. During the intervening time we’ve seen Russian interference in the 2016 elections and allegations of fraud in the 2020 contest. Clearly, strong standards are …

Antitrust Laws and Open Collaboration – DOJ Updates Guidance

1/08/2021

New guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice provides additional insights for standards development organizations, open source foundations, trade associations, and the like (Organizations) seeking to build or improve internal antitrust compliance programs. Read on if you’re interested in developing

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How You Can have an Impact on European Openness Policy

10/21/2020

Are there political dimensions to open source software and hardware? Americans might be surprised to see such a question, given Washington’s almost complete indifference to the dramatic rise of these approaches to technology development. But that’s not the case in …

Invitation to Participate in Comments Regarding Huawei Participation in Standards Development

8/05/2020

Since May of 2019, standards setting organizations (SSOs) and U.S. companies have been struggling with the blowback from the decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) to add Huawei and scores of its affiliated companies to the “Entity List” …

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