May 23 introduction of... Standards Development Organization Advancement Act of 2002 (Introduced in House) 107th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4849 To encourage the development... and promulgation of voluntary consensus standards by providing relief under the antitrust laws to standards development organizations with respect to conduct engaged in for the purpose... of developing voluntary consensus standards, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 23, 2002 Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr. HALL...

in the personal computer industry and undermined the standard-setting process by threatening to exercise undisclosed patent rights against computer companies. Testimony of Timothy J..., 2001 An example of our objectives in this area is to ensure that patent holders do not improperly withhold critical information from industry standard-setting groups to delay... the creation of a standard or raise the price of admission to its use. In Dell Computer,the FTC considered the issue of the capture of a standard-setting body by a holder...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY... INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AS A FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDS George T. Willingmyre, P.E. January, 1998 Many standards related to high... standard's ability to fulfil this objective depends upon its wide use and adoption in the marketplace. It follows, therefore that the procedures of most formal standards organizations... require that there should be no unreasonable impediments for anyone to adopt implement and use a standard. This is straightforward in most instances, but becomes more complicated...

"Value of Management... Presentation and Background materials "Value of Management Systems Certification" 10th International Conference of Standards Users World Trade... and Standardization September 28, 2001 Berlin Power point presentation (5MByte) Text of Presentation of the slides by Guido Guertler, Siemens Corporate Standardization and Regulation Audio... of the Worldwide Quality Assurance Standard ISO 9000 (supported in part from a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Decision, Risk Analysis, and Management Division (SES...

standard "VL-bus". The decision follows Federal Trade Commission charges that Dell restricted competition in the personal computer industry and undermined the standard-setting process... by threatening to exercise undisclosed patent rights against computer companies adopting the VL-bus standard. To settle the FTC charges, Dell has agreed not to enforce its patent... of the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), a non-profit standards-setting organization, when the association began setting a design standard for a computer bus design...