FTC Announces Landmark Settlement with Patent Troll

January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the most important resolution of a standards-related enforcement action since Rambus, and possibly since its landmark settlement with Dell Computer in 1995. At issue was whether a licensing promise made by a patent-owning participant in a standards development process is binding upon someone that later owns the […]

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EU Opens Two New Investigations Against Microsoft – One Involving OOXML

January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

OpenDocument and OOXML Regulators in the EU announced on Monday that they are opening two new investigations against Microsoft, this time focusing not on peripheral functionalities like media players, but on the core of Microsoft’s business: its operating and office suite software. The investigations are in response to a recent complaint filed by Norway […]

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ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words Chapter 5

January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is the fifth chapter in a real-time eBook writing project I launched and explained in late November. Constructive comments, corrections and suggestions are welcome. All product names used below are registered trademarks of their vendors.
Chapter 5: Open Standards
One of the two articles of faith that Eric Kriss, the Secretary […]

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  • Andy Updegrove

     Andy Updegrove

    Andy Updegrove is a partner and founder of Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a Boston-based technology law firm, and has represented and helped structure more than 80 worldwide standard setting, open source, promotional and advocacy consortia over the past 20 years. He has also represented hundreds of both emerging as well as established technology companies, and is the founder and editor of both the popular website http://www.consortiuminfo.org and the widely-read Standards Blog

  • Karen Copenhaver

     Karen Copenhaver

    Karen Copenhaver is a partner in Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP ‘s Business & Technology practice focusing on technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property with a specific emphasis on open source business models. Most recently, Copenhaver was executive vice president and general counsel at Black Duck Software, Inc.