DocumentCode :
2305406
Title :
Standards and intellectual property rights - the international standardization of third-generation mobile system
Author :
Hjelm, Björn
Author_Institution :
Int. Center for Stand. Res., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
fYear :
2000
fDate :
2000
Firstpage :
274
Lastpage :
279
Abstract :
When the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) selected a radio access technology based on Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), sponsored by European telecommunications equipment manufacturers Ericsson and Nokia, for its third-generation wireless communications system, a bitter dispute developed between ETSI and Qualcomm, Inc. Qualcomm threatened to withhold its intellectual property on the CDMA technology unless the Europeans agreed to make the radio access technology backward compatible with IS-95 standard, Qualcomm´s favored version of CDMA. A dispute over intellectual property rights over key CDMA techniques also erupted between Ericsson and Qualcomm and both filed patent infringement in US Court. The dispute halted the standards activity and has troubled operators worldwide as well as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Keywords :
code division multiple access; industrial property; legislation; mobile radio; open systems; standardisation; telecommunication standards; CDMA techniques; CDMA technology; Ericsson; European Telecommunications Standards Institute; European telecommunications equipment manufacturers; IS-95 standard; International Telecommunications Union; Nokia; Qualcomm; US Court; Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access; backward compatibility; intellectual property rights; international standardization; patent infringement; radio access technology; standards activity; third-generation mobile system; third-generation wireless communications system; Code standards; Intellectual property; Manufacturing; Mobile communication; Multiaccess communication; Standardization; Standards development; Standards organizations; Telecommunication standards; Videoconference;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 2000. Proceedings. ISCC 2000. Fifth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Antibes-Juan les Pins
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0722-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2000.860650
Filename :
860650
Link To Document :
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