SEP Essentials

Those were the words on everyone’s lips at both IAM’s SEP Summit Global 2025 in London (“IAM’s Summit”) and at the Symposium on Standard Essential Patents hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) in Geneva (“WIPO Symposium”).  The Honorable Justice Mellor of the Chancery Division of the U.K. High Court put it most succinctly at IAM’s Summit: the biggest issue related to SEPs today is the lack of transparency. [1]  On nearly every panel, nearly everyone,

Industry standards can be very beneficial to the public good.  They can make products more efficient and less costly to manufacture, ensure that products sold by different companies work well together (“interoperate”), increase safety, improve quality and enable further technological innovation.  In short, “good standards are good for business, good for consumers, and good for society.” [1] But, because of the nature of standard development and of standards themselves, the p

A while back (see https://www.sepessentials.com/post/building-a-house ), I likened standards to blueprints for a house.  But standards are actually a lot less complete than a typical blueprint.  A blueprint is defined variously as “a design plan or other technical drawing” or “a complete plan that explains how to do or develop something.” [1]   The word blueprint implies that, by following the blueprint, you will end up with a functional house or other product (although some

Here is my third and last post on the Global Standards Leadership Conference that I attended.  You can find my other two posts here: Global Standards Leadership Conference - Part 1 ( sepessentials.com )  and Global Standards Leadership Conference - Part 2 ( sepessentials.com ) .  This post focuses on the “New Frontiers of SEP Licensing” panel.  The panelists were John Han from Qualcomm, John Kolakowski from Nokia, Ran Xu from Xiaomi, Ryan Cunningham from Sheppard Mullin and M

Welcome to the second installment of my review of the Global Standards Leadership Conference which took place on June 13, 2024, at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.  You can find my first post about it here: Global Standards Leadership Conference - Part 1 ( sepessentials.com ) .  Today I am focusing on the speech given by David Teece, a professor at the Haas School of business at UC-Berkeley where the event was held. Despite opining on SEP valua

I recently attended the Global Standards Leadership Conference organized by Justus Baron (Northwestern University), Kirti Gupta (Cornerstone Research, previously at Qualcomm), and Tim Pohlmann (LexisNexis® IPlytics) which took place on June 13, 2024, at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.  It was an interesting and well-attended conference with a number of different panels and a keynote speaker from UC-Berkeley.  Here are some of the more notewort