This paper explains why profit-seeking companies participate in standardization activities and patent pools, even if the activities benefit their rival companies, and pays special attention to the relation between standards and patents.
First-mover advantages, Interface standards, Leap-frogging, Modularization, Patent, Patent pools, Standardization
| Language(s): | English |
| Authors | Yamada, Hajime (Faculty of Economics, Toyo University, Tokyo Japan) |
| Publisher: | IEC, Geneva, Switzerland |
| First published / Last update: | 2006 |