This book presents a curated overview of the literature that encompasses legal, economic, business, technological, and public policy debates around patented technologies in globally standardized technologies of the future, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB and 5G. They are a result of a collaborative process, complex engineering, and sustained R&D investment. These technologies and many more require common global technical standards that make them accessible, interconnected, and interoperable. The patents that are essential to the functioning of these standardized technologies, or standard essential patents (SEPs), are at the front and centre of all industries, governance methods, and interaction of citizens with the market and the state.
The extensive literature review presented in this book helps us understand how patents drive rapid advances in technology and diverse applications in healthcare, wearable devices, automobiles, quantum tech, appliances, finance, defence, energy, computing, advanced research, and several allied areas. It provides an overview of the role of technical standards and how standard development bodies shape technology diffusion. This book maintains a balance between the interests of all crucial stakeholders innovators & patent holders, developers & implementers of technical standards, licensors & licensees of essential patents, patent offices & regulatory bodies, downstream consumers & end-users, and the scientific community.
This book will help understand the new challenges faced by people, organizations, and the planet in this decade and the way we pivot towards technologies of the future, and the way we blend perspectives from different disciplines and domains. It will ultimately determine how and when innovation in fast-emerging technologies like 6G, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Quantum Computing, and Internet of Things is realized and deployed for the greater good.
1. ITC and Law, legal studies, public policy, economics.-
2. ITC and
development studies / rural development.-
3. ITC and technology management,
innovation management.-
4. ITC and Applications of smartphones and
high-speed mobile connectivity in: healthcare and wearable devices Smart
automobiles, electric cars IoT, household appliances Finance, financial
services, digital payments Drones, military use.-
5. Technical Standards /
Standard Development.-
6. Standard Development Organization (SDO) / Standard
Setting Organization (SSO) IEEE ETSI TSDSI.-
7. Intellectual Property Rights
in Wireless Communication / Essential Patents / Standard Essential Patents
(SEPs).-
8. Licensing of Intellectual Property Rights / SEP Licensing /
Patent Licensing.-
9. FRAND Royalties / FRAND Licensing of IPRs / FRAND
Terms.-
10. Antitrust Issues / Competition Law / Competition Policy / DG COMP
/ CCI / US FTC / DOJ / JFTC.-
11. SEPs in New / Emerging Technologies (6G,
AI, NLP, LLM, GenAI, Quantum Computing, IoT, Autonomous Vehicles).-
12. Other
Related Information.
Ashish Bharadwaj is a widely published scholar in the areas of technology law, innovation & intellectual property policy, and patent licensing. He is a Professor of Law and Economics, and has served as Dean at two leading institutions in India O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat; and BITS Law School, BITS Pilani Mumbai Campus. He has worked with five leading universities in Germany, India, Japan, and the US, with global innovation-intensive organisations, and various government departments in India. Dr. Bharadwaj founded the Centre for Research on Innovation for Shared Prosperity at BITS Law School in BITS Pilanis Mumbai Campus and Jindal Initiative on Research in IP and Competition (JIRICO) in Jindal Global Law School. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Japan), affiliated faculty at Indiana University Bloomingtons Maurer School of Law (USA), and Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition in Munich (Germany). Dr. Bharadwaj holds a Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Law and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, LL.M. from Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Manchester, M.Sc. from College of Engineering Guindy at Anna University, India. He is the recipient of the Max Planck Society Fellowship from the Federal Government of Germany, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship from the European Commission, and the Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship from Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. He has 100+ publications in the form of articles in peer-reviewed journals, manuscripts, edited volumes, and invited op-eds. His last three books & edited volumes with Springer on technology innovation and patent licensing have been collectively accessed more than 350,000 times. For fifteen years, Dr. Bharadwaj has combined strong academic training in business economics and law with professional work in policy making to position himself as an emerging multidisciplinary thought leader in technology law, innovation management, and patent policy.
