Empirical Research on Standardization
Fourth Annual Empirical Research Conference on Standardization
Thursday, October 24, 2024 — Friday, October 25, 2024
This conference will feature presentations of standards-related empirical research in economics, management, law and adjacent fields, and provide a venue for valuable exchanges between experts on standardization from various fields of research as well as industry practice.
Third Annual Empirical Research Conference on Standardization
Thursday, May 25, 2023 — Friday, May 26, 2023
This conference will feature presentations of standards-related empirical research in economics, management, law and adjacent fields, and provide a venue for valuable exchanges between experts on standardization from various fields of research as well as industry practice.
Topics
- SEPs - SDOs' IPR Policies
- SEP Licensing
- Standards and IPR - Policy Evolutions in China
- Standardization and Innovation
- SEP Policy in Europe (Essentiality Checks)
- Standardization Regulation - Evolutions in Europe
- Standardization and Regulation – U.S. Perspectives
- Governance of Standardization
- Societal Impacts of Standards
- Standardization in Emerging Technologies
- Standardization and Financial Markets
Papers
The History of the ETSI IPR Policy: Using the Historical Record to Inform Application of the ETSI FRAND Obligation
Dave Djavaherian, President. PacTech Law, P.C.
Standard-Setting and the Incentives to Innovate: Evidence from the IEEE Patent Policy Update
Michela Bonani, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, ESSEC Business School
Standard Essential Utility Models
Jorge Contreras, James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Participant Diversity in Patent Pool Formation
Karen Ruckman, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Beedie School of Business, SFU
The Economic Impact of Patent Holdout
Bowman Heiden, Executive Director, Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital, Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley
Justus Baron, Director, Research Project on Innovation and Standards, Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics
China's Practice of Anti-Suit Injunctions in SEP Litigation: Transplant or False Friend?
Mark A. Cohen, Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director, Asia IP and Technology Law Project, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Law, State, and Private Enforcement: The Rise of Copyright Protection on China’s Internet
Shitong Qiao, Professor of Law and the Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar, Duke Law School
Michael Klausner, Stanford Law School
Standard Setting Outcomes and Firms’ Subsequent Strategic Choices: An Exploratory Study
Ramkumar Ranganathan, Associate Professor, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Puneet Sachdeva, PhD Candidate, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Standardized Tools and the Generalizability of Human Capital: The Impact of Standardized Technologies on Employee Mobility
Milan Miric, Assistant Professor, Information Systems Group, Department of Data Sciences & Operations, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
Cooperation and Competition: The Case of Innovation in the Telecommunications Sector
Tatiana Rosa, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
The European Standardisation System at a Crossroads
Pierre Larouche, Professor of Law and Innovation, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal; CERRE Research Fellow
Justus Baron, Senior Research Associate, Innovation Policy Research Project, Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics
Characteristics of European Harmonised Standards and Obstacles to their Official Recognition
Santiago Bergallo, Research Assistant, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
The Saga of Copyrighted Standards: a Perspective on Access to Regulation
Olia Kanevskaia, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University School of Law and researcher, Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe
Quantifying the Size, Scope, and Accessibility of Standards Incorporated by Reference in the Code of Federal Regulations
Patrick McLaughlin, Senior Research Fellow, Director of Policy Analytics, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Taxonomy of SDO Resilience Strategies
Antonia Stanojević, Researcher, Tilburg Law School
Good Governance of SSOs: Zoom In On Participation
Marie Gerardy, Legal and Policy Officer/Standardisation Desk Officer, European Commission
Measuring the Societal Impact of Standardization
Paul Wiegmann. Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology
Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
Pau Castells, Head of Economic Analysis, GSMA
Quantum Computing and New Challenges For Encryption Policy
Alessia Zornetta, S.J.D. Student, UCLA Law School & Institute for Technology, Law and Policy
Artificial Intelligence Governance Control Points: Examining Technical Standards as to AI Biases Against an Engineering-Informed Ontological Testbed
Emile Loza de Siles, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Institutional Mobility in Global Capital Markets
Roger Silvers, Assistant Professor, David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah
Public Interest Considerations in Financial Data Governance: The Case of the Global Legal Entity Identification System
Konrad Borowicz, Assistant Professor, Tilburg Institute for Law and Technology
Registration
For registration info, please contact clbe@law.northwestern.edu.
Second Annual Empirical Research Conference on Standardization
Thursday, May 4, 2022 — Friday, May 6, 2022
This conference will feature presentations of standards-related empirical research in economics, management, law and adjacent fields, and provide a venue for valuable exchanges between experts on standardization from various fields of research as well as industry practice.
Papers
Uniform vs Competing Standards: A Structural Analysis of the U.S. Wireless Telecommunications Industry
Michela Bonani, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Tilburg University
Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet
Pau Castells, Head of Economic Analysis, GSMA
China in the Global Governance of Electro-Technology through Technical Standards
Tim Büthe, Professor and Chair for International Relations, Technical University of Munich
Evaluating the Impact of National Deviating Technical Standards
Sabrina Weithmann, Professor, Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences (AUAS)
Chinese Latecomers in International ICT Standardization - How Origin and Experience Impact the Acceptance of Technological Contributions
Lennart Schott, Research Fellow and PhD Student, Leibniz University Hannover
Competition for Leadership Positions in Standards Development Organizations
Justus Baron, Senior Research Associate, Innovation Policy Research Project, Northwestern Center on Law, Business, and Economics
Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity
Nicola Persico, Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Measuring the Societal Impact of Standardization
Paul Wiegmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship & Marketing (ITEM), Eindhoven University of Technology
An Empirical Test of Patent Hold-Out Theory: Evidence from Litigation of Standard Essential Patents
Christian Helmers, Associate Professor of Economics, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
Precision and Bias in the Assessment of Essentiality Rates in Firms' Portfolios of Declared SEPs
Tim Pohlmann, Managing Director, IPlytics GmbH
Firms' Involvement in Standardization and Average Total Costs per Patent Family
Yanis Gamarra, PhD Candidate, Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Management, Chair of Management Accounting
Development of 5G – Identifying Organizations Active in Publishing, Patenting, and Standardization
Magnus Buggenhagen, Technical University of Berlin
Patents that Match your Standards: Firm-level Evidence on Competition and Innovation
Riccardo Zago, Economist, Banque de France; Research Associate at College de France, Innovation Lab
Standards in the Innovation of Converging Industries: A Social Network Analysis of ITS Communication Standards
Doyoung Eom, Postdoc Researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology
Government-Sponsored Research and Technical Standards: Evidence from Standard-Essential Patents
Emilio Raitieri, Assistant Professor, School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology
The Effects of Section 101 Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Doctrine on Technologies Relevant to National Security
Georgios Effraimidis, Senior Manager of Economic Strategy, Qualcomm
First Annual Empirical Research Conference on Standardization
Thursday, May 23, 2019 — Friday, May 24, 2019
This conference will feature presentations of standards-related empirical research in economics, management, law and adjacent fields, and provide a venue for valuable exchanges between experts on standardization from various fields of research as well as industry practice.
Registration
There is no registration fee for this conference, but attendance is by invitation only. To request an invitation, please send a message with your name, affiliation, and complete professional contact information to our Center at searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu.
Papers
“Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation in Standards Development”
Bernhard Ganglmair, ZEW, MaCCI, and University of Mannheim
“The Effect of Standardization on Innovation: A Machine Learning Approach”
Petyo Bonev, University of St. Gallen
Maddalena Agnoli, MINES ParisTech (CERNA)
“The Causal Effects of Including Standards-related Documentation into Patent Prior Art: Evidence from an EPO Policy Change”
Rudi Bekkers, Eindhoven University of Technology
“Over-Declaration of Standard-Essential Patents and the Determinants of Essentiality”
Robin Stitzing, Compass Lexecon
“Standards-Setting Competition with Network Effects: Theory and Empirical Analysis”
Jin Wang, Kansas State University
“How Do Patent Assertion Entities Influence the Direction of Technological Change? Evidence from 3GPP SDO”
Aija Leiponen, Cornell University
“Why Do R&D-Intensive Firms Participate in Standards Organizations? The Role of Patents and Product-Market Position”
Justus Baron, Northwestern Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
“Making the Rules. The Governance of Standard Developing Organizations and their Policies on Intellectual Property Rights”
Pierre Larouche, Université de Montréal
“The Origins of the Industrial Standardization Movement and the World Outside Europe and North America”
Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College
“Trademarks, Certification Marks and Technical Standards”
“Standards Setting Organizations and Trademark Registration: An Empirical Analysis”
Jorge Contreras, University of Utah
Brad Biddle, Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology, Arizona State University School of Law
“Certifier Competition and Audit Grades”
Talia Bar, University of Connecticut
“Differentiation Strategies in the Adoption of Environmental Standards: LEED from 2000-2014”
Marc Rysman, Boston University