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Who is leading the 5G patent race? – June 2022
Licensing of 5G SEPs promises to become a highly lucrative market, making the 5G patent race more competitive than ever before – although the latest 5G patent data shows the question of who is currently winning it remains unclear. Although it may be difficult to...
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Connecting the Dots Part 1: SEP Portfolio Management
SEPs are important bargaining chips to negotiate licensing deals across industries to enter new markets, to control supply chains, to litigate, and to acquire and sell assets. To have a seat at the FRAND negotiation table and ensure a sustainable and successful IP...
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The Japanese View on FRAND: An interview with Takanori Abe, Founder at ABE & Partners
Q1: The first question I always ask invited guests on my “SEP couch” is how they ended up working with SEP related topics. It would be great if you could walk us through the most important positions in your career and tell us how and when you first got in touch with...
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Global Standards Leadership Conference 2022
On June 15th IPlytics joined forces with the Northwestern University of Chicago to organize a one-day expert conference discussing the importance of leadership in technology standards. The conference hosted about 90 delegates for the in-person event while over 150...
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Slides and Recording – What do FRAND experts think of SEP valuation?
Standard essential patents (SEPs) protect inventions that are implemented in millions of products that rely on connectivity through standardized technologies such as 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi or audio and video codecs. Patent holders must provide access to SEPs, while they...
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The all-new Semantic Essentiality Score is here! A redefined approach to determining patent essentiality
IPlytics is set to release a new feature to the IPlytics Platform - the leading solution for standard essential patents and standards contribution databases. This feature is called Semantic Essentiality Score (SES) and it will allow users to improve the way they work...
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Analysis of patents, SEPs and standards in the smart healthcare sector
Healthcare is one of the most impactful, critical and intimate interactions of people with the rapidly changing technological paradigm. With the advent of so-called smart healthcare, the entire industry will experience a suite of new interconnected products and...
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Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Lecture on SEPs and Standards
This lecture provides a great introduction into what standard essential patents (SEPs) are, how FRAND is defined and why the FRAND framework still leaves room for discussion. The lecture goes on to explain about SEPs are licensing in patent pools or bilateral SEP...
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