SEP Essentials

Way back in the early days of this blog, I wrote an article about the EU’s complaint in the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) against China ( First Pop Quiz Revisited - The EU Complaint Against China ). The EU complaint alleged that China violated the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights “TRIPS” agreement primarily through Chinese courts’ use of anti-suit injunctions. I wanted to give an update on that case: it appears that the EU has lost. Although a publi

A lot of my practice these days involves technology development deal work. This includes intellectual property license agreements where technology and know-how is transferred, and agreements to collaborate on developing new technologies. This type of work is great: I love helping companies grow their business and develop innovative and interesting new technology. Negotiations for these types of deals can sometimes take a long time – several months or even as long as a year

The bipartisan “Promoting United States Leadership in Standards Act of 2025” was recently introduced in the United States Senate by Senators Blackburn and Warner. [1] The intent of the Act is to “promote United States leadership in technical standards” and “ to encourage and enable United States participation in developing standards and specifications for artificial intelligence and other critical and emerging technologies.” This is obviously a worthy goal. The current sy

In Andrew Myles’ guest post ( Convergence and Competition - A Tale of Two Standards Part 4 - Guest Post by Andrew Myles ), he discussed the six companies that have failed to respond to ISO’s request to confirm whether or not they will grant a FRAND license for their Wi-Fi 6 SEPs. I recently took a look into the Chinese ISO holdout Huawei ( Convergence and Competition - A Tale of Two Standards Part 5: Huawei ) and now want to focus on the "Nordic companies" [1] that are ISO h

In our increasingly connected world, telecommunications and network interoperability is crucial to the United States economy. Interoperability is provided by functional, well-designed standards. If the U.S. is to maintain its leadership in the networking, telecommunications and emerging IoT markets, the U.S. government must act to protect the critical standards, such as Wi-Fi and cellular, used by Americans and American companies. The first step in this process is recognizi

In Andrew Myles’ guest post ( Convergence and Competition - A Tale of Two Standards Part 4 - Guest Post by Andrew Myles ), he discussed the six companies that have failed to provide a formal response to ISO’s request to confirm whether or not they will grant a FRAND license for their Wi-Fi 6 SEPs. It’s time to take a deeper dive into some of those six companies. To remind you, those six companies are: · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Huawei,” based out of China), ·