Complications and Quandaries in the ICT Sector

Dr. Ashish Bharadwaj is an assistant professor at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), O.P. Jindal Global University and co-director of Jindal Initiative on Research in IP & Competition (JIRICO)—a think-tank focused on frontline research on issues at the interface of high technology, patents and antitrust. He writes extensively on the role of technology and innovation in shaping societies, green technology, SEP/FRAND litigation and technical standards. He is an affiliated faculty at the Center for Intellectual Property Research, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University (Bloomington), USA and a visiting professor at the Institute for Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). He holds a Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich); European Master in Law and Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands and the University of Manchester, UK; Master in Economic Sciences from Anna University, India; and a BA Honors in Economicsfrom Delhi University, India.Dr. Vishwas Devaiah is an associate professor at the Jindal Global Law School, Executive Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (CIPTEL) and Managing Editor of the journal Jindal Global Law Review, published by Springer. Vishwas’s primary areas of interest are patent law, health law and biotechnology law. He has published widely and serves as a reviewer for the Asian Comparative Law Journal, the NUJS Law Review and the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, UK; an LLM degree from Warwick University, UK; and Bachelor of Law (BAL, LL.B.) degrees from University Law College, Bangalore University, Bangalore. His Ph.D. research was on the regulation of human embryonic stem cell research, titled ‘Protecting egg donors and patients in human embryonic stem cell research: A critical analysis of the current and proposed regulation in India.’ Dr. Indranath Gupta is an associate professor and assistant director of the Centre for Postgraduate Legal Studies and at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Dr. Gupta received his LL.B. degree from the University of Calcutta, India; holds an LLM with distinction from the University of Aberdeen, UK; and a postgraduate research LLM in Computer Law from the University of East Anglia, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. from Brunel University, London, UK. Dr. Gupta has been involved in qualitative and quantitative research. He was appointed as the research collaborator by the Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, for a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. Dr. Gupta has also worked as an advocate in a solicitor’s firm at the Calcutta High Court. He has published in European and Indian law journals and has spoken at international conferences and seminars. His research areas include database right, copyright, data protection, cyber law and interfaceof IP and competition law.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Technology Standards and Competition in the Mobile Industry by Kirti Gupta.- Chapter 3. Standard Setting Organizations and Competition Laws: Lessons and Suggestions from the United States by Donald E. Knebel.- Chapter 4. FRAND Commitments and Royalties for Standard Essential Patents by D. Scott Bosworth, Russell W. Mangum, Eric C. Matolo.- Chapter 5. SSPPU: FRAND as Trust by Nicolas Petit.- Chapter 6. FRAND Commitments in Patent Portfolio Licensing by Anne Layne-Farrar.- Chapter 7. Calculating FRAND, Licensing fees: A proposal of basic pro-dynamic competition criteria by Gustavo Ghidini.- Chapter 8. Current Issues in SEP Licensing in Europe: An EU Competition Law Perspective by Roberto Grasso.- Chapter 9. Competition, Intellectual Property Rights and Collaboratively Set Standards: Federal Trade Commission Advocacy and Enforcement by John Dubiansky.- Chapter 10. National Disparities and Standards-Essential Patents: Considerations for India by Jorge L. Contreras.- Chapter 11. FRAND in India by Koren W. Wong-Ervin, Douglas H. Ginsburg, Bruce H. Kobayashi, and Joshua D. Wright.