Quite often the patent and intellectual property right issues are given a though during the standardization process. It might be for example that companies cont

Quite often the patent and intellectual property right issues are given a though during the standardization process. It might be for example that companies contributing to the standard are required to agree to license their IPR related to the standard under certain conditions. The reason is to prevent cases where company first submits something to the standardization body and then tries to extort money from others trying to implement that standard. This of course is not a foolproof mechanism. There could be for example companies not participating in the standardization who hold significant IPR in the field. Certainly the policies between standardization bodies differ. Not sure how the ISO/IEC handles these issues.