Archived news items

Back in 2018, ETSI published an educational book on standardization, which was quickly adopted by many institutes worldwide. In December 2021, a fully revised second edition of this book was published, in which I serve as co-author.

On 16 December 2021, Elena M. Tur, Emilio Raiteri and myself were finalist of the Valorization Price of the Department of IEIS at our university.

On 14 December 2021, I delivered a speech and served as panel member at the 4th edition of the Paris conference on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and FRAND of the Licensing Executive Society (LES), the world’s largest professional association for IP and licensing professionals, Paris.

On 9 December 2021, I delivered a speech at Dutch Platform Internetstandaarden.

On 7 December 2021 I delivered a presentation at the Research Roundtable: “Mechanisms, Governance, and Policy Impact of SEP Determination Approaches” (Part 1) organized by Northwestern Center on Law, Business and Economics (Chicago) and IPlytics (Berlin).

On 17 November 2021 I delivered an invited speech at a meeting of Fair Standards Alliance (FSA), Brussels.

On 4 November 2021, I participated as speaker in #WOIConversations Episode 3: Ownership in Open Innovation. Should be soon on their YouTube channel. 

September 2021: I am featured in an article on European ruling and standardization in Elsevier Weekblad (EW), special edition ‘Europese Unie’ (September 2021), page 90-93.

On 1 October 2021, Peter Persoon will defend his PhD! I served as supervisor and 2nd promotor for Peter.

From 11 to 15 October 201, our group at TU/e will organize the 4th EuroTech doctoral course: The Economics and Management of Innovation and Technological Change. In addition to our own faculty, we also welcome speakers Gaétan de Rassenfosse (EPFL), Dominique Foray (EPFL), Joachim Henkel (TUM), Jason Li-Ying (DTU), and Argyro Nikiforou (DTU). The course is open to all interested doctoral students from EuroTech universities, but we also welcome students from other institutions. See the call.

On 10 September 2021 Elena Mas Tur presented our co-authored paper on a pilot experiment on essentiality testing on the EPIP2021 conference in Madrid, Spain. So good to see so many colleagues there in person!

From 6 to 8 September 2011, I hosted the 11bth International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT 2021) in conjunction with the 25th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference Standardisation and Innovation at my university. Using a very interactive online conference tool, I think the event was a great success! Organization crew picture (with Kai Jakobs and Paul Wiegmann).

Dual jubilee: on a single day, 25 June 2021, I received the news that I had been working 25 years at TU/e as well as 20 years at Dialogic. Wow…

On 8 March 2021, I provided an invited talk at ETSI IPR Special Committee, Sofia Antipolis, France.

20 May 2020 I delivered a presentation at DVB, the organization responsible for standardizing the successful DVB video standard, The talk was for the IPRM, the group in DVB that is responsible for making recommendations concerning the organizations’ IPR policy and overseeing its functioning.

3 May 2021: Now member of the editorial board of the new Elsevier journal “Invention Disclosure”.

24 February 2021: Will serve as one of the speakers on the European Commission webinar “Transparency in SEP licensing - How to clarify possible exposure upfront?”. Over 400 external guests have registered for this event.

16 December 2020: Delivered an invited speech at a meeting of the IP Owners Association, which has many of the world’s larges patent owners among its members. 

12 December 2020: I will serve as the Program Chair for the SIIT2021 conference, held in Aachen (Germany) in September 2021.

Contributed to a newspaper article that appeared in Trouw, 27 Dec. 2020 “Eindhoven is een koploper op het gebied van innovatie, met dank aan de typisch Nederlandse cultuur van samenwerken”

10 December 2020: a two page article appeared in main Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad that features the Essentiality Study we carried out for the European Commission.

On an event 10 December 2020 joined by over 200 participants by industry and other stakeholders, during a poll, 82% said to be in favor of a publicly available database of essentiality tested SEPs, as proposed in the Essentiality Study we carried out for the European Commission.

In a public speech of 25 November 2020, EC Commissioner for Competition and Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager announced that the “Commission will explore setting up an independent system of third-party essentiality checks [...]”, thereby indicating following up our recommendation in the Essentiality Study we carried out for the European Commission.

25 November 2020: the EC-commissioned Essentiality Study and the Landscape Study are now made public.

On December 2, 2020, there is the official launch event for the Essentiality Study we carried out for the European Commission. Over 450 people have registered!

On 26 November 2020, I delivered a talk at the Masterclass FRAND 2020 for the Centrum Permanente Educatie. This event was aimed at aimed at an audience of IP lawyers, legal council, and patent attorneys.

On November 17, 2020, the Dutch Minister of Justice and Security offered the report “Information-sharing nationwide network of cybersecurity partnerships” to the Dutch parliament, of which I am one of the authors. An English summary can be found here.

30 September 2020: Kick-off meeting of the NEON project. This project, aimed at accelerating the energy and mobility transition through integral, multidisciplinary research, encompasses more than 30 new PhD positions and many partners from industry and other organizations. I will coordinate the standardization component within NEON.

16 September 2020: I deliver a presentation for the ETSI IPR Special Committee meeting #34. In the presence of over 50 delegates, I talked about the policy of the European Patent Office (EPO) in terms of including standards-related prior art in the patent examining procedure.

3 September 2020 : The 11th. SIIT2020 conference, organized by Kai Jakobs and myself, just ended. With six sessions, 351 session participations by 203 unique individuals, this was the largest SIIT conference ever! Thank you to all participants and all the positive feedback we received! 

23 June 2020: new articles in Research Policy and in Technological Forecasting & Social Change now published online - see Publications page.

14 June 2020: three deliverables (D6.1, D6.2 and D6.3 )from the the evRoaming4EU project are now public; see the Reports page. 

18 May 2020: more than 200 people attended the webinar where we presented the results of the evRoaming4EU project.

23 April 2020: Dutch standards body NEN announces it will fund two PhD projects on standardization, one at TU/e and one at Delft. I am involved in the supervision of both projects.

Contributed to a newspaper article that appeared in NRC, 12 March 2020, Patentenoorlog in Europa: China claimt recordaantal uitvindingen

December 2019: The NEON (New Energy and mobility Outlook for the Netherlands) research proposal, is selected to receive 8.5 million Euro funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The TU/e is the lead applicant and within this project, I will supervise a PhD student on standardization.

June 2019: NWO awarded funding to the INTERSECT project (“An Internet of Secure Things”) in which I participate. The TU/e is the lead applicant and the project will receive approx. 10 million Euro in the Dutch Nationale Wetenschapsagenda (NWA) programme. 

In May 2019, I served as visiting teacher for the EuroTech doctoral course Economics of Innovation and Technological Change (EITC) at Technische Universität München.

In January 2019, I was was invited to address the European Parliament during a public hearing on patents and standards. Present were members of the European Parliament, but also by top-level representatives of the EC (including the Head of Unit, Industrial Property and the Fight against Counterfeiting - DG GROW), top-level representatives of the European Patent Office, as well as market players, political journalists, and observers.

EVroaming4EU project awarded and kick-off in January 2018. This €2 million project aims to facilitate the development of an EU-wide infrastructure for roaming when charging electric vehicles. Project partners include the Netherlands Knowledge Platform for Public Charging Infrastructure (NKL), MRA Elektrisch, as well as five German, Austrian and Danish partners.

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As per 1 November 2017, I am promoted to Full Professor at my university!

On invitation of the EPO, I will give a presentation at the PATSTAT user day on the linking of the dSEP database and PATSTAT, on Monday 13 November 2017, Mexico City.

Invited to participate in the High-level roundtable Effective IP strategies for the Cloud-driven Digital Transformation, Brussels, 27 September 2017.

In August 2017, a paper on disclosure rules and declared essential patents appeared as NBER Working Paper at  http://www.nber.org/papers/w23627. See conferences and working papers for more details.

New conference papers accepted at the 2017 Conference on IP Statistics for Decision Makers (IPSDM), 14-15 November 2017 in Mexico City.

Will speak at the DRUID Professional Development Workshops (PDW) on the benefits and challenges of digitalization in research and practice at DRUID17 conference, June 12 - 14, 2017, New York

New conference papers accepted at the DRUID17, EMAEE2017 (2x), 2017 ZEW/MaCCi, and also at EPIP2017 and EARIE17. See conferences page.

On 29-30 May I will talk at the LCII-TILEC Workshop "The Future of Open and Collaborative Standard Setting", Brussels.

July 16-26 , 2017 I will teach at the 1st European Summer School on Standards and the Law Tilburg University,

May 22-28 I will teach at the Eurotech PhD school on Economics of Innovation and Technological Change Lausanne, Switzerland.

On 5 December 2016, I will talk at the 10th Annual Standards, Patents & Competition: Law & Litigation in London.

The IEEE Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) “Innovation and Competition: Succeeding through Global Standards” I was part of ran its first instance in Spring 2016  and saw 2700 participants from 135 countries.

On 22 September 2016, I’ll be part of a session on university industry relations at the CIP Forum conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.

On 14 June 2016, TILEC of the Tilburg University held an expert workshop on the functioning of SSOs. I organized a session on Governance of Standardisation at that event.

The IEEE Standards Education MOOC “Innovation and Competition: Succeeding through Global Standards”, in which I served as one of the lecturers, ran for the first time from 29 March to 13 May 2016 and had over 2700 individuals from 135 countries participating.

On Feb 24, 2016, a new version of the public dSEP database of disclosed essential standards was made available to the public. See http://ssopatents.org as well as the announcement in the EPO PATSTAT forum.

On February 3, 2016 I was lead discussant at the IEEE-SA Board of Governors Forum Roundtable on the Role of Technology Standards in Trade Policy in Vienna.

Just finished the video recordings as a contributor to a new Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) “Innovation and Competition: Succeeding through Global Standards” by IEEE, which will launch in Spring 2016.

Discussant at the conference on “Competition, Standardization, and Innovation” organized by the The Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), 10-11 December 2015. On this event, I was part of the same plenary session as Nobel price winner Jean Tirole.

Dec 2015: Printed version out of a new paper on Just-In-Time inventions at Research Policy, co-authored by Byeongwoo Kang.

Nov 2015: New paper co-authored with Negin Salimi and Koen Frenken in Science and Public Policy (see in publications). 

Nov. 2015: Presented paper at the 2015 Conference on IP Statistics for Decision Makers (IPSDM), to be held in Vienna, on 3-4 November 2015.

Oct. 2015: Served as invited speaker and session organizer at a 2-day international seminar organized by the  China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) on Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Rights, which will take place in Beijing on October 22-23. 

Oct. 2015: presented paper at the IEEE 9th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (IEEE SIIT 2015), 6 - 8 October 2015, Sunnyvale, California.

September 2015: Presented a paper at the European Policy for IP (EPIP 2015) conference in Glasgow, 2-3 September 2015.

April 2015: a paper titled “Does working with industry come at a price? A study of doctoral candidates” with Negin Salimi and Koen Frenken was published on-line in Technovation. See in Publications.

In the second half of May 2015 I will teach at the EuroTech doctoral course “Economics of Innovation and Technological Change” in Lausanne, Swiss.

On 5 May 2015 I will deliver an invited talk at the European Patent Office / Bocconi University workshop on IP management case studies.

At the Net Futures 2015 conference, March 25-26 2015, Kai Jakobs and I provided a key note presentation on the relation between research and standardization in the session ‘Radio Access and Spectrum - FP7 Future Networks Cluster’).  

On March 13, 2015 I delivered a talk at the Dutch ETSI member organisation NELO at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in The Hague.

On March 25, 2015 I participated as a special advisor to the IEEE Board Meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

On November 6th, 2014 I delivered an invited talk at the Advisory council for science, technology and innovation (AWTI, formerly known as AWT) on collaboration between universities and industry.

On July 7, 2014, ITU released a handbook on standards and patents which I co-authored with Antoine Dore and several ITU staff members. See in Publications. 

On July 1, 2014, I was appointed as the chair of the Chair of the Technology, Innovation and Society (TIS) group.

Two new studies appeared that we conducted for the Autoriteit Consument en Markt (ACM) - see Reports.

On June 19, I organized a seminar together with the Product Development & Management Association - Netherlands (PDMA.NL) titled “IP & Open Innovatie: Paradox of Synergie?”

June 2014: gave a presentation at JETRO, the research arm of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Formerly this was known as MITI, one of the most powerful agencies of the Japanese government.

April 2014: Leaving for a two month sabbatical at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan, and several meetings at other place.

April 2014: Two papers accepted at the Schumpeter 15th ISS Conference 2014 in Jena, June 2014. 

March 2014 : Report on Patents and Standards commissioned by the EC is now published. See more information at Publications section of this site.

Feb 2014: Promoted to Associate Professor at the TU/e.

Jan 2014: My Ph.D. student Byeongwoo Kang successfully defended his thesis at the Tokyo University.

Jan 2014: Invited to contribute to the work of the EC Expert Group on Patent Aggregation.

Dec 2013: Invited talk at the LUISS Università Guido Carli in Rome.

Nov 2013: Invited talk at “Kenniswerkplaats: de wetenschap achter valorisatie” on 26 november in Utrecht, organised by Instituut Maatschappelijke Innovatie (IMI).

Oct 2013: the report of the NAS committee on patents and standards, of which I was a member, is released. See also information on the commissioned report Andy Updegrove and I prepared for this  committee.

June 2013: Doing an keynote speech for the United Nations / ITU Global Symposium for Regulators 2013 in  Warsaw.

May 2013: A new paper on patent pools, written with Simon den Uijl of Philips and Henk de Vries of Erasmus university, is accepted for publication by California Management Review.

In the summer of 2013, I will present papers at a series of conferences, including ZEW/MaCCI INNOPAT, EMAEE, DRUID, EURAS, and AoM.

In July 2013, I will deliver an invited speech at the ITU Global Symposium for Regulators 2013.

In June 2013, I will deliver an invited speech at the IEEE-SA Patent Forumin Brussels.

In May 2013, I accompanied a group of 28 students on an intensive study trip to South Korea, visiting several universities, research institutes and companies every day.

In January 2013 I started work on a commissioned study by the EC on patents in standards

In 2013, I will deliver an invited talk at the ITU Global Symposium for Regulators 2013, July 3-5.

In October 2012, the International Telecommunications Union organizes a Patent Roundtable at which I will deliver a keynote speech.

In early October 2012, the committee of the National Academies of Science in which I participate will organize a public workshop, where a number of commissioned studies will be presented.

April 2012: On April 11-12, I will deliver an invited talk at the Fourth International Workshop on Evolution of Technology and Standards at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

April 2012: Papers accepted at both the Schumpeter Society conference (Brisbane, Australia) and at DRUID (Copenhagen).

Jan 2012: Recently, I was appointed as a committee member at the National Academies of Science in the US, where we will investigate the impact of patents in standards.

December 2012: A new paper was accepted by Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

Sept 2011: The European Commission published the study I was involved in on the interplay between standards and patents. To download, click here.

Sept 2011: A few more weeks to go before the start of the 7th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT2011). For that conference, I will act as the programme chair.

June 2011: A new paper was accepted by Technovation.

May 2011: Working on the Open Essential IPR Disclosure Database. This public database includes cleaned data of all IPR disclosures of the 14 largest standards bodies worldwide. This work is done with Christian Catalini, Arianna Martinelli and Tim Simcoe and was first presented at the Standards, Patents & Innovation Pre-Conference by NBER in May 2011.

May 2011: a new paper co-authored by René Bongard and Alessandro Nuvolari was accepted by Research Policy.