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At the very least there should be a global irrevocable license to implement the standard exactly. I imagine this could still allow the patent holder strong righ
by btown 6y ago
At the very least there should be a global irrevocable license to implement the standard exactly. I imagine this could still allow the patent holder strong rights if any other party were to deviate or iterate on the standard. But it’s insane to me that standardization bodies don’t insist on this.
- beervirus 6y agoThere's a whole body of law that's grown up around compulsory licensing for standard-essential patents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat... The issue here is that Nokia allegedly has patents that are infringed by the standard, and didn't disclose them to the standards body.
- chaosharmonic 6y agoSome of them do, at least now. The Alliance for Open Media, for one, has terms that revoke your license to relevant patents if you sue anyone for implementing the spec.