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Patents against standards: It's a failure of our society when it's near impossible to write a standard without stepping on someone's patent. When an open standa
by anordal 3y ago
Patents against standards: It's a failure of our society when it's near impossible to write a standard without stepping on someone's patent. When an open standard is patented, it is ruined.
- phh 3y agoBased on your comment, it seems you're assuming the people writing the standard don't intent to step on patents, but that's wrong. Patents on standards is largely how standards are financed, by company who will then recoup their research spent on that via those patents. I think that RAND patents and with the list of patents published alongside the standard are an acceptable compromise. In France for the equivalent on ATSC 3.0, we standardized on Dolby audio (AC4), which is NOT available as RAND at all (and is stupid for many other reasons). So well, we've put ourselves in a worst situation.
- toast0 3y agoIn my market, ATSC 3 broadcasters are also using AC4, so same deal here. Of course, AC3 in ATSC 1 was a licensing coup too.
- SenAnder 3y ago> Patents on standards is largely how standards are financed, by company who will then recoup their research spent on that via those patents. Thankfully those companies have a sense of fair play, and wouldn't dream of charging more than they spent on research, or of using patented standard to stifle competition for anyone not in their industry group.
- pentagrama 3y agoI didn't know that, eg the W3C patents the HTML standards that they create?
- anordal 3y agoWhether you seek royalties or not, you only want to step on your own patents (or the participating parties, who can agree on licensing), not a patent troll (non-participating entity) whose biggest motivation is to sit on the fence until a deep-pocket company comes along.