technical requirements or agreed technical descriptions which cover ideas, products or services and make sure that technologies interact and work together. A Standard Essential Patent (SEP) is a patent
knowledge and data, and provide meaningful services in the SEP area. WIPO Strategy on Standard Essential Patents 2024-2026.pdf
vice-president for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager, was leaked in March 2023. The draft immediately met with widespread opposition. A great deal of criticism came from patent pools and SEP
infringing a Standard Essential Patent (SEP), i.e., without using technologies covered by one or more patents." The India IP SME Helpdesk team has published a brand-new factsheet focusing on the SEP framework
Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on standard essential patents and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1001
challenges. As is known, to curb potential abuses, SEP holders must commit to licensing their patents on FRAND terms. However, determining what qualifies as “fair” and “reasonable” remains contentious. This
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a $14.5 million damages award in favour of Microsoft in its standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing row with Motorola. In a judgment handed
Huawei Technologies Co. is conspiring with the Chinese government to “wrongfully dominate” the market for telecom equipment by setting onerous terms for the use of its intellectual property, a US-ba...
$138.7m. Given the paucity of countries whose courts are currently prepared to set such rates, the judgment will be of interest internationally to SEP owners and implementers. Mellor J’s comments on whether
December 2021 to March 2022. The objective of the questionnaire was to determine if the UK’s current SEP system functions fairly and efficiently, and whether the government needs to make changes to