Standards Law
"Unofficial standards law by David Rudin, an official Microsoft standards attorney." Rudin also links to standards-related news around the Web at his Standards Law Link Blog.
Author: David Rudin is an attorney on the corporate standards team at Microsoft.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Law Practice Management • In-house Lawyer
Recent Posts from Standards Law
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Patent Licensing Assurances in Standards Organizations
From a patent licensing perspective, most standards organizations are based on RAND principals. In other words, members are required to make their patents that are required to implement a specification available on reasonable and non-discriminatory…
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HD Photo Submitted for Standardization
Microsoft has started the process of standardizing HD Photo. Today, the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) announced a new work item around Microsoft’s HD Photo submission, which will tentatively be called JPEG XR. The standardization…
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Another Specification Available Under the Open Specification Promise
I have the opportunity to work with a number of different groups at Microsoft. Recently, I’ve been working with the folks in Microsoft Research on the release of the Decentralized Software Services Protocol (DSSP) protocol,…
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Standards Law Link Blog Added
Posting has been slow lately, but I am working on a couple of entries. In the meantime, I’ve added a standards law link blog that will include standards related news from around the web.
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Floor Lamps are Not Software
IBM’s Rob Weir wrote a nice piece about the standardization of electrical fixtures and the benefits those standards bring to consumers. In fact, far from constraining choice, standards enable greater choice. Because the basic plugs,…
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DRM and Approaches to Interoperability
Steve Jobs made headlines recently with his “Thoughts on Music.” While a great deal has been written about Jobs offering to embrace the distribution of DRM free music, I thought his comments on interoperability were…
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Patent Damages and Defensive Patents
During the recent controversy regarding Microsoft’s RSS related patent, there seemed to be a general disbelief that Microsoft was filing the patent primarily for defensive purposes. As an example of the patent litigation landscape today,…
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The RSS Controversy
There’s been a lot of blog posts in the last several days regarding Microsoft’s filing of RSS related patents. Despite many negative posts, Don Dodge and Techdirt have provided a balancing perspective. While I am…
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Open Specification Promise Video on Channel 9
Channel 9 has recently posted a video that gives additional information and background on Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise. The video features Jean Paoli, co-creator of XML and General Manager of Interoperability & XML Architecture, Tom…
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Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! join together to support Sitemaps. A lot goes into these deals.
Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google have just announced a joint initiative to improve search engine results by providing a single way for web operators to notify each search engine about website details. Lots of great posts…