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

[Roland Perry]

In message <512CE0EB.9030103 at gmail.com>, at 18:20:59 on Tue, 26 Feb 
2013, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> writes
>it has the practical effect of introducing a policy of compulsory 
>licenses for thousands of standards relevant patents.
>
>DOJ and PTO are responding to growing criticism of the patent system
>as it relates to mobile computing devices and other technologies where
>product developers find it difficult if not impossible to obtain
>voluntary licenses on reasonable terms to the large number of patents
>covering various aspects of the product.

The same issue (having to licence many patents) was one of the 
highlights of making [IBM-]PC clones 25 years ago. Then there were the 
copyright issues, with several firms setting up in business to prove 
non-infringing versions of things like the BIOS. And of course Microsoft 
based its business on selling clone makers copies of MSDOS that were 
sufficiently similar to the PCDOS it was supplying to IBM.
-- 
Roland Perry

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