Brussels, 15/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has closed its investigation of the European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute (ETSI) following ETSI's recent change to its standard-setting rules. This change strengthens the requirement for early disclosure of those intellectual property rights (IPRs) which are essential for the implementation of a standard in order to minimise the risk of so-called 'patent ambush' (where a company hides the fact that it owns IPRs...