Law360, New York ( October 10, 2012, 2:24 PM EDT) -- Commonly adopted technical standards promote efficiency and compatibility between products and components from different companies. For instance, the H.264 (MPEG-4) standard governs video compression. High-definition digital television, video cameras and Blu-ray players and recorders rely on H.264 to ensure interoperability. Often, technical standards are developed in the context of a collaboration of industry players within a standard setting organization ("SSO"). In order to deal with patents of its member companies that potentially could encumber the industry standard, SSOs typically require their members to disclose potentially relevant patents and to promise to license them on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory ("FRAND") terms....