The Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law: Volume 2: Further Intersections of Public and Private Law

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Technical standards like USB, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are ubiquitous in the modern networked economy. They allow products made and sold by different vendors to interoperate with little to no consumer effort and enable new market entrants to innovate on top of established technology platforms. This groundbreaking volume, edited by Jorge L. Contreras, assesses and analyzes legal aspects of technical standards and standardization beyond those covered in its companion volume (patents, competition, and antitrust). Bringing together leading international experts, advocates, and policymakers, it focuses on key areas of technical standardization law including administrative, trade, copyright, trademark, and certification law. This comprehensive, detailed examination sheds new light on the standards that shape the global technology marketplace and will serve as an indispensable tool for scholars, practitioners, judges, and policymakers everywhere.

Jorge L. Contreras is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law and an internationally-recognized authority on the law of technical standard-setting. His work has been cited by scholars, courts and regulatory agencies throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia and he has published more than sixty scholarly articles and chapters on this topic alone. He has twice received first prize in the Standards Engineering Society's scholarly paper competition, and in 2018 was awarded the Standards Education Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standards Association.

'Judging by its impressive bibliography of almost thirty pages, this book, with its illuminating commentary, is obviously the result of careful and extensive research and therefore a valuable investigative tool for practitioners, judges and academics keen to enhance their understanding of this particularly fascinating and fast developing area of law.' Elizabeth Robson and Phillip Taylor, The Barrister 'This book is useful for researchers, practitioners, post-graduate students, lawyers, judges, policy makers, and most importantly to all those who are involved in communication standardization activities in any capacity.' Mubashir Husain Rehmani, IEEE Communications Magazine