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I. Introduction
On November 26, the Dusseldorf Regional Court handed down a long awaited decision in the so-called
automotive patent wars (case ID 4c O 17/19). The court referred heatedly debated questions in connection with the enforcement of standard essential patents (“SEPs”) to the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”). The detailed set of questions addresses two main issues: 1. Whether the entity selling a device (here a car) that includes a component that implements the technology protected by the SEP would be in compliance with the FRAND procedure set out by the CJEU in
Huawei v. ZTE if it were to refer the SEP holder to the upstream component supplier rather than making a fair reasonable and non- discriminatory (“FRAND”) offer itself; and