EU expert group criticised over SEP proposals
12-02-2021
02-08-2016
An EU expert group on standard-essential patents (SEPs) has failed to reach a consensus on the future of SEP licensing, drawing criticism from both sides of the debate between SEP owners and implementers.
This week, the European Commission’s SEPs Expert Group published its long-awaited contribution to the debate on how SEPs are licensed, including key policy recommendations.
The group’s 11 members, while all acting in a personal capacity, represented views from both major SEP owners and implementers in the automotive industry. Notably, it included Monica Magnusson, vice president of IPR policy at Ericsson, and Matthias Schneider, chief licensing officer at Audi. The automotive industry has come into conflict with SEP owners in recent years, as it becomes increasingly reliant on telecommunications standards for connected cars.
Frand Forever? Or Other Business Models Are Possible? FrameWork License (FWL) intends to move past FRAND assurances which havenât reduced friction between innovators and implementers.
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In the context of the development of new technology standards, Intellectual Property Rights (IP Rights) are the engine that ensure and sustain technology innovation. FWL intends to move past FRAND assurances which havenât reduced friction between innovators and implementers.
In fact, the question of the implementation of FRAND assurances has created a diversity of interpretations, including different decisions taken by the courts. So much so that the recent judgment of the UK Supreme Court affirms a comprehensive principle of the meaning of FRAND: This is a single, composite obligation, not three distinct obligations that the license terms should be fair, and separately, r
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Rarely must patent infringers demand their right to pay
royalties. But several multinational manufacturers have gone to
court to insist that they – and not other participants in the
supply chain – make payment of any patent royalties. From a
contractual perspective, judicial analysis of such claims has
focused on the non-discrimination prong of the fair, reasonable,
and non-discriminatory ( FRAND ) patent licensing
commitment. In other words, some manufacturers have argued, and
some courts and administrative agencies have agreed, that a
patentee s refusal to provide FRAND licenses at all levels of
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