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PATENT CHALLENGES FOR STANDARD-SETTING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2011 asked the Na- tional Academies’ Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to examine and report on the role of patents in standard-setting processes in an international context. For the STEP program, this charge represented the conflu- ence of its long-standing interests in the standards system on the one hand and intellectual property policy on the other hand. The Board’s very first consensus study, in response to a congressional mandate, resulted in the report, Standards, Conformity Assessment, and Trade (National Research Council, 1995). And in 2001, STEP initiated a series of studies of the patent system whose products included Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy (National Research Council, 2003), A Patent System for the 21st Century (National Research Council, 2004), Reaping the Benefits of Genomic and Proteomic Research: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health (National Research Council, 2006), and Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest (National Re- search Council, 2010). STEP Board recommendations strongly influenced the America Invents Act, enacted in 2011 the first major revision of U.S. patent law in more than half a century.
KEITH MASKUS AND STEPHEN A. MERRILL - Personal Name
978-0-309-29312-9
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Information Technology
English
2013
1-177
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