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46 Cap. U. L. Rev. 583 (2018)
A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire: Implication of the 2015 Amendments to IEEE-SA's Patent Policy

handle is hein.journals/capulr46 and id is 607 raw text is: A SINGLE SPARK CAN START A PRAIRIE FIRE: IMPLICATIONS OF THE 2015 AMENDMENTS TO IEEE- SA'S PATENT POLICY ASHISH BHARADWAJ MANVEEN SINGH* I. INTRODUCTION Interoperability is a vital prerequisite for numerous products, embedded with advanced technologies, to work seamlessly across users. Inoperability guaranteed the inevitability of Moore's Law-the principle that has powered the Information Technology revolution over the past four decades in making our world more digitally connected than ever before.' There is a high demand for multiple inventions within one technology to work together, and a need to have numerous technologies communicate with each another. Standard-setting organizations (SSO), such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) aid in facilitating the interoperability of systems.2 Published SSO standards outline technical requirements that guarantee Copyright © 2018, Ashish Bharadwaj and Manveen Singh. *Dr. Ashish Bharadwaj (corresponding author) is Associate Professor and Director of Jindal Initiative on Research in IP and Competition (JIRICO) at Jindal Global Law School. He can be reached on abharadwaj@jgu.edu.in. Manveen Singh is Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Jindal Initiative on Research in 1P and Competition (JIRICO) at Jindal Global Law School. We appreciate the research assistance from Khushboo Soni, a final- year law student at Jindal Global Law School. All errors remain ours. Further, opinions expressed in the work are independent of any research grants received from governmental, intergovernmental and private organizations. The authors' opinions are personal and are based upon their research findings and do not reflect the opinions of their institutional affiliations. ' G. Moore, a founder of Fairchild Semiconductor (and later Intel), predicted a doubling of components per microchip each year. This prediction held true and became known as Moore's Law. Chris A. Mack, Fifty Years of Moore's Law, 24 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING 202, 202 (2011). 2 The quantity of standards set forth just by the IEEE are extensive. See, e.g., IEEE 2030-2011 (AM. NAT'L STANDARDS INST. 2013); ANSI/IEEE 1420.1-1995 (AM. NAT'L STANDARDS INST. 2002); IEEE 1849-2016 (AM. NAT'L STANDARDS INST. 2018).

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