SEP Essentials

There is so much going on in the world of SEPs and SEP policy right now that it is hard to keep up.  So, in a departure from my normal deeper dive posts, today’s post is a summary of a few recent SEP related government actions. Implementation Roadmap for the U.S. government’s “National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technology ”   Just in time for this election cycle, the Biden-Harris administration has released the Implementation Roadmap [1]  for the U.S. Gover

Here are the answers to the quiz. The first set of cases was the dispute between Microsoft and Motorola, the second the IPCom litigation with Lenovo and the third the Conversant/Huawei dispute. The jurisdictions and why they are outliers are as follows. Jurisdiction 1 – the United States . Patent damages in the United States, including for SEPs, usually are much higher than anywhere else in the world. The US is also a very large market for consumer based standardized prod

Historically, when licensing negotiations fail, large SEP holders file patent infringement lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions against a single implementer. Sometimes implementers file breach of contract (for breach of the FRAND commitment) or declaratory judgement actions against SEP holders when negotiations break down. Here is the story of three such disputes. Each of the jurisdictions listed below is an outlier in its own way. Can you name each of the jurisdictions?