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Don’t Panic! It’s Just FRAND licensing practices
A breakthrough in calculating a 'fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory' (FRAND) royalty rate for wireless patents came in the year 2198. After centuries of debate and litigation, the supercomputer...
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The EU impact assessment of Standard Essential Patents reform: Nice try but please try again!
The EU process to reform its policy on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) should have been much better. When the proposal was unveiled in April this year, many observers and experts were surprised –...
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The Economic Value of Standard Essential Patents and the Costs of the Commission’s SEPs proposal
The European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) puts SEP holders against SEP implementers. The logic is simple: since the economic contribution of implementers is...
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Power, cooperation and Standard Essential Patents – Reviewing the European Commission’s bid for reform
The European Commission’s proposal to upend the current system for Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) have prompted many reflections and a good amount of criticism. One perspective that...
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Go back to the drawing board! The Commission’s leaked patent reform would be bad for technological development and Europe
I have finally got around to reading the leaked draft proposal by the European Commission to overhaul the system of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) by creating a new framework for determining...