Title
A New Approach for Developing Open Standards with a More Reasonable Patent Licensing Policy
Author
Dr. Tiejun Huang, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Wen Gao, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Cliff Reader, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date
3/16/2008
(Original Publish Date: 2/1/2004)
(Original Publish Date: 2/1/2004)
Abstract
For more and more new standards containing patents, the licensing policy of these patents has become the key factor determining whether a standard will be adopted by industry. RAND — the principle of ISO — has stymied the standards being adopted in some cases. While royalty free is a good answer for some areas, it is not popularly or easily agreed on. AVS (Audio Video coding Standard working group of China) enacted a new strategy of “public technical standard with pre-defined competitive price licensing of patent pool.” It is based on organizing the open standard working group and administration committee of the related patent pool respectively so that they promote the application of the standard. This paper discusses the strategy and implementation details specifically for the case of AVS standards.
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