SEP Essentials

The European Commission’s “Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on standard essential patents and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1001” (“Proposal”) is an attempt to bring some sanity to what is now a fragmented, difficult, time consuming and expensive FRAND licensing system. In drafting my opening post, I took a walk down memory lane into the global SEP licensing disputes that surrounded the development of the third generation (3G) cellular