This study examines the reliability of Altman's Z-score model to predict the financial failure of
the ICT sector in Pakistan. Data for 11 PSE-listed (Pakistan Stock Exchange) ICT companies …

A large theoretical literature asserts that standard-essential patents (SEPs) allow their
owners to “hold up” innovation by charging fees that exceed their incremental contribution to …

An increasing number of firms are making public pledges to limit the enforcement of their
patents. In doing so, they are entering a littleunderstood middle ground between the public …

This article reviews the recent proposal by Mark Lemley and Carl Shapiro that standard-
setting organizations (SSOs) amend their intellectual property rights (IPR) policies to require …

An increasing number of judges, legislators, and scholars, particularly in the United States,
have wrongly come to believe that the commitment that standard-essential patents be …

Technical interoperability standards pervade the modem networked economy. Every mobile
telephone, laptop computer, and digital file, along with thousands of other high-tech and low …

9. Technical standards, standards-setting organizations, and intellectual property: a survey of
the literature (with an emphasis Page 1 185 9. Technical standards, standards-setting …

Patent-holdup theory avers that the patent system threatens the rate of innovation in the US
economy, particularly in information technology industries that are heavily reliant on …

Scholarly commentary widely asserts that technology markets suffer from a triplet of adverse
effects arising from the strong patent regime associated with the establishment of the Court …

Across the world, a problem known as" patent holdup" has become a central issue of
discussion in academic and policy circles. Broadly, patent holdup is said to occur when a …