| I work for a publishers writing good reports Last Tuesday, the Antitrust Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on a relatively obscure but important element of our high-tech economy: standard setting organizations (SSOs).?SSOs are the groups that determine the rules of interconnection between high-tech products, ensuring that those products actually work. At issue in the hearing was whether competitive problems occur when firms that hold intellectual property essential to using a standard (known as standard-essential patents, or SEPs) have an obligation to share that intellectual property.
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