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NISO Publishes White Paper on Patents and Open Standards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cynthia Hodgson)
Thu Dec 11 20:12:25 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:10:19 -0500
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NISO Publishes White Paper on Patents and Open Standards
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has
published a white paper on Patents and Open Standards by
Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director of the Florida Center
for Library Automation. This white paper is a timely
reminder to everyone involved in standards development of
the relationship between standards, patents, and the
policies of standards development organizations.
Originally published as the feature article in the October
2003 issue of Information Standards Quarterly, NISO is
making this important information available as a free
electronic download from its website:
<http://www.niso.org/press/whitepapers/Patents_Caplan.pdf>.
The paper reviews some patent basics and then considers
the following questions:
· What is an ?open standard??
· What are the policies of other standards setting
organizations governing patented contributions to
standards?
· What are the implications for NISO?
The paper concludes with an update from NISO on their
recently adopted Patent Policy.
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Cynthia Hodgson
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814-5248
T. 301-654-2512, F. 301-654-1721
www.niso.org
