# Presentation: 358603

## Transparency of Patent Licensing Information During Development of Standards Facilitates Efficiency in Markets for Technologies in Standards

- Scott K. PetersonSenior Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company

## 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.Guidance on the application of Section 1 to collective action during standards setting regarding licensing terms for patents essential to standards facilitates behavior that reduces the likelihood of conduct in violation of Section 2.

- 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.Guidance on the application of Section 1 to collective action during standards setting regarding licensing terms for patents essential to standards facilitates behavior that reduces the likelihood of conduct in violation of Section 2.

- 30 January 2007

## 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.

- 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.

*	**There should be competition in markets for technologies in standards.*

- 30 January 2007

## 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.

- 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.

*	**Inadequacy of information about licensing of patents essential to technical choices being made contributes to inefficiency in the market for technologies in standards.*

- 30 January 2007

## 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.

- 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.

*	**Standards setting should seek to enable technology, **not specify/require it.*

- 30 January 2007

## 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.

- 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.

*	**Pro-competitive behavior is being chilled by concern about **Section 1 risk. *

- 	Fear of Section 1 risk in the collective consideration of license terms is reducing the efficiency of the market for technologies for selection in standards.

- 30 January 2007

## 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.Guidance on the application of Section 1 to collective action during standards setting regarding licensing terms for patents essential to standards facilitates behavior that reduces the likelihood of conduct in violation of Section 2.

- 	Transparency of patent licensing information during development of standards facilitates efficiency in markets for technologies in standards.Guidance on the application of Section 1 to collective action during standards setting regarding licensing terms for patents essential to standards facilitates behavior that reduces the likelihood of conduct in violation of Section 2.

- 30 January 2007