Standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have gained increasingly important roles in determining and maintaining technological standards over the last twenty years. The relationship between the characteristics of SSOs and the rules that they enforce to license and disclose intellectual property are...

This paper empirically explores the procedures employed by standard-setting organizations. Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2004), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a...