Conflict of Interest Disclosures:Dr Desai serves or has served as a consultant for AbbVie, Allergan, Valeant, Galderma, and Anacor and is a member of the speakers’ bureaus for AbbVie and Galderma. Dr McMichael serves or has served as a consultant for Aclaris, Allergan, Anacor, Bayer, Cassiopea, Covance, eResearch Technology Inc, Galderma, Guthey Renker, Incyte, Johnson & Johnson, Keranetics, Me...

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Dr Lavernia is from the Orthopaedic Institute at Mercy Hospital, Miami, Florida. Dr Lavernia is a designer for Zimmer and receives royalties on the CR Flex and the ML taper products. In this issue of Orthopedics, Dr Carlos Lavernia, medical director of the Orthopaedic Institute at Mercy Hospital, discusses research stating that female patients postpone necessary knee arthroplasty procedures mor...

The impact of patents and patent royalties are a major concern of standards setting organisations. Here we examine the patents filed in the UMTS 3rd generation mobile phone standard, governed by the ETSI IPR policy in response to patent issues faced during the earlier GSM standardization. We contrast firm strategies and policy effectiveness between the GSM and UTMS efforts, and review the poten...