Modern standardization: case studies at the crossroads of technology, economics, and politics

This book covers a broad range of issues of interest to engineering students and professors, from early development of technologies to the standards development process, market projections and analysis of technologies and products in specific case studies, economic considerations in the development of specific technologies and products, and the role of intellectual property rights in formalizing technical standards.

In addition to sever highly focused case studies, the book features an extensive chapter on what the standards community refers to as standard essential patents -- the sharing of intellectual property (IP) that contain underlying technologies that are essential to producing a final, publishable standard. With companies trying to get as much of their IP into a standard as possible, this is one of the most critical and contentious issues in developing technical standards today. The final section of the book, "International SDOs Defined" identifies more than 20 major global standards development organizations (SDOs), details their history, areas of interest in standards development, and their relationship with other SDOs.