{"title":"Standardization in the ict: towards ever closer union between SSOs and patent offices?","authors":"Olga P. Kokoulina","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535601","url":null,"abstract":"It is commonplace to consider standardization as an ecosystem prone to the risk of patent holdup. Whereas the potential of the patent holders' overcompensation is present in a variety of multicomponent industries, standard-setting organizations can, in fact, be employed to mitigate such risk. This paper explores the models, benefits and costs of the cooperation between standard setting organizations and patent offices. It appears that possible collaboration can increase efficiency and transparency of standard setting organizations. Additionally, it has a potential to enhance the quality of patents and prevent the risk of widespread patent holders' overcompensation.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"499 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116696519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE's Humanitarian Open Source","authors":"A. Herrera, T. Prowse","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535596","url":null,"abstract":"IEEE has been developing organizational capability to create open source innovations for humanitarian needs since the 2004 Tsunami. In 2009, IEEE held the Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC); where one of the stated objectives was that the results would be broadly available to anyone for their use in providing humanitarian products or services. Since then, various Humanitarian Open Source activities have been sponsored by the IEEE, notably under the Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) program. This paper presents some of these activities, and their accomplishments, commenting its link to the global open source movement. It presents IEEE's open source licenses meant to protect IPR developed by IEEE volunteers under the humanitarian activities it sponsors. Finally, Open Standards and interoperability are briefly discussed in relation to IEEE's stated humanitarian goals.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"9 15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130121474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evolving role of standardisation in technological innovation: the case of photovoltaics","authors":"J. Ho, E. O’Sullivan","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535597","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the increasing awareness on the importance of standards in supporting technological innovation, there are limited understanding and empirical evidence on various roles of standards in supporting innovation activities and how they evolve over time, due to the complexity involved in innovation and standardisation. The current research carefully explores the evolving role of standardisation, through the historical study of standardisation in photovoltaics technology. Analysing archival documents and expert interviews both quantitatively and qualitatively, it is observed that various types of standards played different roles and functions to support different technological activities across its innovation journey. The study is expected to broaden the evidence base to inform standards organisations and policymakers in developing standardisation strategies to support technological innovation more effectively.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124884063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of early-stage proposals in standardization","authors":"Toru Yamada, M. Serizawa","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535347","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents analysis results of earlystage proposals in standardization so as to consider companies' effort toward obtaining standard-essential patents (SEPs). The number of the SEPs has greatly increased in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field. Some companies in the ICT field strategically aim to obtain SEPs. It is important for such companies to file patents timely and to propose their technologies covered by the patents to standardization bodies from the early stage of the standardization process. oneM2M Release 1, a standard for Machine to Machine (M2M), is investigated in this study. First, proponents of each item in the functional-requirement specification discussed in the early stage are analyzed in order to know technical areas in which major companies are interested. Then, the relationship between the interesting areas (the early-stage proposals) of the major companies and their patents is investigated. The investigation results show that the early-stage proposals by vendors (manufacturers) are highly overlapped with their patents. It can be said that the vendors are strategically proposing from early stages in order to get SEPs. On the other hand, less overlap is observed in nonpracticing entities (NPEs) and mobile operators. Since NPEs filed patents in a wide range of the technical fields, it is likely to have intention to obtain SEPs by employing other companies' proposals. The mobile operators have the relatively large number of proposals as compared with the number of filed patents. It can be said that they consider that it is important to make the M2M market larger rather than to make benefit from SEPs. From the observation above, one can conclude that the companies in different business categories have different strategies in the standardization from the viewpoint of obtaining SEPs.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127581922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perilous deviations from FRAND harmony- operational pitfalls of the 2015 IEEE patent policy","authors":"R. D. Katznelson","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535599","url":null,"abstract":"Standard Development Organizations (SDOs) have one thing in common: they uniformly refrain from formally defining the meaning of \"Fair, Reasonable and Non- Discriminatory\" (FRAND) licensing terms required for patents essential to implement technical standards, called standardessential patents (SEPs). This uniformity in non-definition is called FRAND Harmony. However, in a bitterly contested and controversial move, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) amended its patent policy, effective March 15, 2015, to become the only major SDO to substantively define FRAND licensing terms, a definition at great variance with other SDOs' practice and a substantial deviation from IEEE's traditional neutrality on FRAND terms. IEEE's new departure from de facto industry standard licensing practice will put parties into irreconcilable legal positions: SEP licenses for new standards may not simultaneously conform to the new FRAND terms mandated by the 2015 IEEE patent policy, and to legacy FRAND terms in the old licenses that necessarily follows legacy technology. This will undermine dynamic efficiencies in innovation where new standards incorporate other legacy standards by reference as \"normative,\" and where standard amendments are rolled-up into new revisions of the standard. Under this new patent policy, IEEE Societies will be handicapped in developing new standards that build on legacy standards. IEEE's deviation from FRAND Harmony has the additional potential of inducing a practice that would discriminate among SEP holders in adopting technologies in IEEE standards. Many top quality and complex standards projects may grind to a halt unless IEEE-SA reverses course, as another SDO did two decades ago when their similar experiment with FRAND disharmony failed.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124233682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Private standards as means of technology transfer","authors":"A. Mangelsdorf","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535603","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I investigate the effects of private supermarket standards on international trade of manufactured food products. I hypothesize that private standards are means of technology transfer bringing advanced food safety management practices and skills from high-income countries to medium and low income countries. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the International Featured Standard (IFS) which is one of the most important private standards originating in Germany and France and applied in supermarkets throughout Europe. With the help of a full database of IFS certified firms, I build a macroeconomic gravity model of 88 countries for the years 2008 to 2013 and can show that the number of certified firms in exporting countries is positively correlated with trade of manufactured food products. The results suggest that spillover effects from certified firms increase the efficiency of non-certified and help the whole food producing industry to access international markets.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123499666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity in standards development: A response to Katznelson","authors":"Gilad Y. Ohana","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535600","url":null,"abstract":"In his article Perilous Deviations From FRAND Harmony-Operational Pitfalls of the 2015 IEEE Patent Policy, Ron Katznelson discusses the development of the 2015 updates to the patent policy contained in the IEEE Standards Association By-Laws, and predicts \"Operational pitfalls\" involving supposed difficulties involving incorporation by reference of IEEE-SA standards created under the updated policy. In my response, I provide a different perspective on what led IEEE-SA to adopt the updated patent policy. Specifically, I discuss how the policy updates respond to concerns that innovative companies involved in standards development at IEEE-SA and elsewhere have based on their real-world experiences in licensing patents claimed to be essential to implement standards such as Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) and Ethernet (IEEE 802.3). I also explain why Mr. Katznelson's prediction that the updated By-Laws will cause other standards development organizations to decline to incorporate IEEE-SA standards by reference are imaginary and inconsistent with widespread incorporation by reference that happens today between standards created under RAND models and standards created under royalty-free models. Finally, I show that Mr. Katznelson's concerns with the IEEE-SA's updates reflect a discomfort with the idea that standards development organizations should be free to experiment with diverse models for access by implementers of standards to patented inventions essential to implement standards and made available for license by participants in standards development. Far from being something that we should fear, experimentation and diversity with different patent licensing models, like diversity in other aspects of standards development, benefit participants in standards development, implementers of standards, and consumers that purchase products that implement standards.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126812378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internet of Things and Business Models","authors":"Pelle Hognelid, Thomas Kalling","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535598","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding implications on firm performance from the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) is critical in order for firms to make rational decisions regarding business model configurations and investments in IoT. The transition between the current state and widespread adoption and diffusion of IoT is expected to be complex, and standardization is one of multiple barriers discussed in research regarding Internet of Things. In order to ensure interoperability between billions of heterogeneous devices, standardization may be a significant factor with potential impact on IoT investments. To expand our understanding of strategic implications of IoT investments, this paper analyzes the impact of IoT on business models and sources of value creation by applying a proposed framework to empirical illustrations. Further research is needed to support development of frameworks and to advance our understanding of how firms should act in order to meet challenges generated by the emergence of IoT.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121624559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engagement in ICT standardization: Pushing the patents or questing for knowledge?","authors":"C. Riillo, Ivana Mijatović","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535604","url":null,"abstract":"Strategies for managing organizational knowledge in modern companies can have many alternatives which are not mutually exclusive - like safeguarding knowledge through IPR mechanisms and sharing knowledge in standardization processes. This research explores how perception of patents and standards influence ICT firms' engagement in standardization. Departing from the \"forum shopping\" approach, the research investigates whether patenting has a different influence on the probability of a firm to engage in ICT formal standardization and/or in standards consortia. Our investigation enriches the shopping model considering as well whether firms perceiving standards as source of information for their innovation are more likely to engage in standardization activities. Additionally, we investigate the potential moderating role of firm size. Results show that smaller firms are more motivated by the quest for knowledge during standardization while larger firms are more sensitive to the importance of patent.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132699348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Government intervention in technology innovation system in the catching-up context: Case of TD-LTE technology innovation in China","authors":"Guanyu Liu, P. Gao","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2015.7535602","url":null,"abstract":"China is witnessed to catch up in the field of information technology (IT) through years of technology innovation. Scholars have indicated the significance of the government promotion and efficient technology innovation systems (TIS). Innovation literature about how TIS can be functioned and efficient with government intervention is still insufficient, especially that in catching-up context. This work aims to understand mechanism of government intervention in TIS for achieving technology innovation. Combining TIS frame with institutional perspective, a framework is developed. Underlying with the framework, case of TD-LTE innovation in China is examined based on extensive documentary research and semi-structured interviews. Within catching-up context, this paper argues that government is required to exert institutional forces on key components of TIS in different stages to achieve different tasks, both influential and regulative, for innovation purpose. These institutional measures work with a time sequence and the environment of technology innovation is also significant.","PeriodicalId":137385,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131566254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}