On April 27, 2023, the European Commission published a draft proposal on standard essential patents (SEPs) seeking to address the perceived lack of transparency and predictability in the licensing of ...

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week issued its first decision on the issue of appropriate reasonable and non-discriminatory, or RAND, royalty ...

Shenzhen, China--(Newsfile Corp. - June 5, 2025) - Leading smart device company OPPO today announced the signing of a global patent licensing agreement with Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft (hereafter ...

On June 3, 2024, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) Director Kathi Vidal and Chief Executive Officer of the UK Intellectual Property Office ...

Standard essential patents (SEPs) continue to sit at the center of global technology disputes. Here, we highlight five major developments shaping SEP enforcement, licensing, and policy across key ...

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As 5G cellular standards continue to connect billions of smartphones, automobiles, and IoT devices, the licensing of standard essential patents (“SEPs”) has emerged as a key interest of businesses and ...

In the intellectual property world, few topics spark as much discussion, anticipation and sometimes animosity as the role of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) within the global landscape. Addressing ...

Beyond patent trolls, Washington lawmakers are turning their attention to another alleged form of patent abuse: companies reneging on agreements to license intellectual property under FRAND ...

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Standard-essential patents aren’t providing as much leverage in the smart-device wars as Google may have hoped when it paid $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility. Apple scored ...

Holders of patents have the fundamental right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell, or importing the patented invention. Wide adoption of these patents typically stem from ...

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