European competition authorities will this week move to beef up rules governing the way in which all-important industry standards – used in sectors ranging from telecoms to IT – are developed.This has been an area of growing concern to regulators, particularly when companies have battled to get technologies carrying lucrative intellectual property rights incorporated into new industry-wide standards.To read this report in The Financial Times in full, see:
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Brussels to beef up industry standards rules
European competition authorities will this week move to beef up rules governing the way in which all-important industry standards – used in sectors ranging from telecoms to IT – are developed.