Published: 8/4/15
Publication: IAM
In a wide-ranging interview, Konstantinos Karachalios, the managing director of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), has explained why he feels the changes made earlier this year to the IEEE-SA’s patent policy, were essential to the future stability of licensing worldwide. Speaking to the IAM blog Karachalios insisted: “This is about the dynamics of the entire system and a system with no rules has no future and the system where the rules are totally ambiguous has no future.” He fended off criticisms not only of the changes themselves but also of the process by which they were decided. The new terms and the decision-making process have been lambasted by a lobby of tech companies that have significant patent licensing businesses. Since the changes were confirmed Qualcomm, InterDigital, Ericsson and Nokia have all announced that they will not submit their patented technologies to be licensed under the new regime.