A few months ago I came across a fascinating short paper authored by David Goodman (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY)and Robert Myers (Fairfield Resource International) entitled 3G Cellular Standars and Patents (IEEE WirelessCom 2005, June 13, 2005).

The authors had participated in a project which had analyzed the 7,796 patents deemed ‘essential’_[1] to the 483 technical [...]