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If government had stayed out of it then the cost of patents would not be a factor; the improved system could have been universally adopted and standardized as q
by nybble41 7y ago
If government had stayed out of it then the cost of patents would not be a factor; the improved system could have been universally adopted and standardized as quickly as it could be reverse-engineered.
- Merrill 7y agoStandards actually help somewhat, since standards committees generally require that participants disclose their patents that are essential to practice of the standard and pledge to license them on "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory" basis. Of course, there is debate on what is actually FRAND. And other parties that are not members of the standards committee may claim that they own patents essential to the standard. But government recognized standards are better than nothing.