A New Perspective on FRAND Royalties: Unwired Planet v. Huawei

Alison Frand: Breaking out new ideas on molting

T he nematode worm, C. elegans, sheds its exoskeleton at particular life stages, and Alison Frand believes that understanding this molting process might provide new insights into diseases affecting humans. Some of the potential medical benefi ts lie in the similarities between the worms' exoskeleton and our own skin and connective tissues, while other benefits might lie in the unique aspects of...

Labeled RISC-V: A New Perspective on Software-Defined Architecture

Traditional computer architectures are insufficient to convey important high-level requirements of applications to the hardware. These requirements include QoS and security, which are extremely important to data centers in the cloud era. To guarantee better QoS in data centers, we propose a new computer architecture LvNA (Labeled von Neumann Architecture) that leverages labeling mechanism and p...

Sustainability for the Planet: A Marketing Perspective

Introduction Marketing and the Climate Change Debate Marketing For Social and Environmental Change Marketing and the Scientific Community Enviro-marketers: Whos Out There Marketing Sustainability? What Can We Learn from Them? Marketing Adaptive Management: a Call to Action Conclusion Endnotes Responses to this Article Acknowledgments Literature Cited

Implementing the FRAND Commitment

For many years, standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have required members to commit to license standard-essential patents (SEPs) on Fair, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. How FRAND terms can and should be interpreted has been the subject of extensive debate (as well as litigation in many jurisdictions). While we acknowledge other objectives behind these commitments, we focus h...

Minimising tax on writing fees and royalties.