SEP Essentials

I have posted several times about Huawei’s scandalous behavior and growing domination of several standard setting/development organizations. This behavior includes “stuffing the ballot box in group voting” in the 802.11 working group, which came to light when a Huawei patent portfolio manager accidentally sent an email intended for another Huawei employee (who is Vice-Chair of the 802.11 working group) to the entire 802.11 email reflector.[1] I have also written extensively

I have long been concerned that the current state of geopolitics and internecine competition within standards bodies has begun to negatively impact the development and implementation of important global standards. The focus of my concerns, and much of my writing, has been on issues related to cellular, Wi-Fi and occasionally AV codecs. I have focused on those standards because SEPs and alleged SEPs for those standards underlie the bulk of SEP litigation and aggressive SEP l