Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) are at the heart of global technology markets, particularly in 4G/5G communications. While SEPs ensure interoperability, they also raise significant licensing…
“I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” U2’s iconic lyric might capture how patent holders feel when an anti-suit injunction (ASI) from a foreign court threatens to derail enforcement in Europe…
Back in January 2025, the EU initiated consultations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to challenge the practice of Chinese courts to unilaterally set binding global royalty rates for non-Chinese…
In July 2023, the Japanese electronics company Panasonic initiated a series of patent infringement and FRAND-related proceedings against several subsidiaries of the Chinese consumer electronics maker…
Like Prudence the heroine of Amours à l'Italienne (Rome Adventure in English), UPC local division of Mannheim gives us a lesson of polyamory with the first UPC FRAND decision (November, 22, 2024,…
The 2015 landmark decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Huawei/ZTE established a balanced framework for licensing standard essential patents (SEPs), striking a compromise…
Brazil is an increasingly relevant venue for litigation involving standard essential patents (SEPs). As a top-5 market in the world for consumer electronics and the most performing economy in Latin…
On 12 July 2024 the English Court of Appeal gave its second FRAND determination judgment, in the context of an appeal and cross-appeal of Mellor J’s first instance decision in IDC v Lenovo. This…
The question of the role that UPC is likely to play in relation to SEPs (and therefore FRAND licenses) is one that I've heard most often since the new jurisdiction was born, certainly because the…
