[governance] The US Department of Justice and USPTO call for compulsory licenses on thousands of "standards-essential" patents

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 27/02/2013, at 8:12 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

> I am sorry but RFCs are consensus based standards. Even if they conflict with or are alternate implementations of patents it has little or no impact to actual governance 
> 


The patents regime directly affect the cost and functionality of Internet access devices, especially mobile devices that are critical to access in the developing world, therefore I agree with Sala, a very central issue for Internet governance discussions.

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