The Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law
Competition, Antitrust, and Patents

This groundbreaking volume, edited by Jorge L. Contreras, assesses and analyzes the legal aspects of technical standards and standardization.

Jorge L. Contreras (Edited by)

9781107129665, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 December 2017

524 pages
26.1 x 18.7 x 2.8 cm, 1.28 kg

Technical standards are ubiquitous in the modern networked economy. They allow products made and sold by different vendors to interoperate with little to no consumer effort and enable new market entrants to innovate on top of established technology platforms. This groundbreaking volume, edited by Jorge L. Contreras, assesses and analyzes the legal aspects of technical standards and standardization. Bringing together more than thirty leading international scholars, advocates, and policymakers, it focuses on two of the most contentious and critical areas pertaining to standards today in key jurisdictions around the world: antitrust/competition law and patent law. (A subsequent volume will focus on international trade, copyright, and administrative law.) This comprehensive, detailed examination sheds new light on the standards that shape the global technology marketplace and will serve as an indispensable tool for scholars, practitioners, judges, and policymakers everywhere.

Introduction Jorge L. Contreras
Part I. Standards and Standardization in the Marketplace: 1. Standards and the global economy Knut Blind and Brian Kahin
2. No standard for standards: understanding the ICT standards-development ecosystem Brad Biddle
3. How SSOs work: unpacking the mobile industry's 3GPP standards Kirti Gupta
Part II. Antitrust/Competition Law and Standards Development: 4. Unilateral conduct and standards Daryl Lim
5. Concerted action in standard-setting George S. Cary and Daniel Culley
6. European Union competition law, intellectual property law and standardization Damien Geradin
Part III. Patents and Standards: Introduction – patent and antitrust law: an introduction Michael A. Carrier
7. Economics of patents and standardization: network effects, hold-up, hold-out, stacking Tim Simcoe and Allan Shampine
8. Collective rights organizations: a guide to benefits, costs and antitrust safeguards Richard J. Gilbert
Part IV. Private Ordering Policies for Standardization: Disclosure and Licensing Commitments: 9. Origins of FRAND licensing commitments in the United States and Europe Jorge L. Contreras
10. Form and variation in FRAND and other standards licensing commitments Jorge L. Contreras
11. Enforcing FRAND and other SDO licensing commitments Jorge L. Contreras
12. Non-discrimination and FRAND commitments Jorge L. Contreras and Anne Layne-Farrar
13. Essentiality and standards-essential patents Jorge L. Contreras
14. Transfers of standards essential patents Marc Sandy Block
15. The disclosure of patents and licensing terms in standards development Gil Ohana and Brad Biddle
Part V. FRAND Litigation around the World
16. US antitrust aspects of FRAND disputes Renata Hesse and Frances Marshall
17. EU competition law analysis of FRAND disputes Nicolas Petit
18. FRAND (and industrial policy) in China D. Daniel Sokol and Wentong Zheng
19. FRAND in Korea Sang-Seung Yi and Yoonhee Kim
20. Standard essential patents in Japan Yuko Kimijima
21. FRAND in India J. Gregory Sidak
22. Alternative dispute resolution and FRAND disputes Jorge L. Contreras and David L. Newman
23. Judicially determined FRAND royalties Norman V. Siebrasse and Thomas F. Cotter
24. Injunctive relief and the FRAND commitment in the United States J. Gregory Sidak
25. Injunctive relief in the EU – intellectual property and competition law at the remedies stage Pierre Larouche and Nicolo Zingales
26. Standard Essential Patents at the United States International Trade Commission Elizabeth I. Winston
27. The anti-suit injunction – a transnational remedy for multi-jurisdictional SEP litigation Jorge L. Contreras and Michael A. Eixenberger.

Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], Competition law / Antitrust law [LNCH], International economic & trade law [LBBM], Law [L]