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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Jeremy Malcolm [27/02/13 10:24 +0530]:
>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.

That is questionable given that there is a much wider variety of access
devices, and moreover, cost at least is based on economies of scale, market
conditions etc. There is very little that a patent in this field does to
confer monopoly given the wide variety of smartphones from various
manufacturers, not to mention PCs / laptops etc.

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