What's so interesting about IT standards?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Why would the law school offer a class devoted to it, you ask? Well, I thought this was a pretty good summary of why lawyers (and their clients) care from Woodcock Washburn–the home firm of my professors.
. . . our lawyers advise clients on compliance with patent disclosure obligations. This expertise is especially important to companies with employees participating in standards-setting organizations to avoid the risk of rendering crucial patent rights unenforceable. We also counsel health care providers that rely extensively on web-based technologies to share data with customers, partners and suppliers. These organizations need to know that the third-party intellectual property rights they contribute will still be available to them.
Interesting, huh? Until today, I really didn’t give standards setting organizations much thought. Not much at all.
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