Part 1: Research Roundtable: “Mechanisms, Governance, and Policy Impact of SEP Determination Approaches”
The uncertainty regarding the essentiality of declared SEPs is an important topic in the policy debate about FRAND. Different approaches have been proposed to increase transparency about the number of truly essential patents in different patent holders’ portfolios. As...
Webinar Recording and Slides: The Role of Standard Essential Patents for Smart Factory applications
Smart factory applications will be driven by disruptive technologies, such as AI-controlled robots, cloud-monitored machines, real-time sensors, automation technologies connected to the Cloud, and augmented reality, all of which will use connectivity standards to...
IIPLA 2021 Session Recording – Patent Pools in Age of IoTs, 5G and NextGen Video Codecs
The main rationale for patent pools is to solve the stickiness problem of licensing (eg, by saving transaction costs for both licensors and licensees). Considering that connectivity standards such as 4G/5G, Wi-Fi or video codecs will be used across multiple industries...