Bluetooth

Bluetooth appears in The Invention Invention as one of the later standards whose patent-pool structure followed the path reopened by the MPEG Patent Pool. The source uses Bluetooth as a downstream example of Standards-Based Innovation: devices work together because firms coordinate around shared technical rules and licensing institutions.

Connections

• MPEG Patent Pool - template case named by the source.
• Patent Pool, Essential Patents, and FRAND Licensing - standards-licensing concepts.
• [[FiveG|5G]], DVD, and [[ThreeGMobilePhones|3G mobile phones]] - other downstream examples named by the source.