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The European Commission’s proposal for a new regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs) is unnecessary, misguided and fundamentally flawed, according to experts participating in a Science|Business roundtable sponsored by IP Europe on 22nd of May. The regulation, published at the end of April, is part of the European Commission’s 2020 IP Action Plan, which covers a broad spectrum of updates and proposed new European intellectual property rules.

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Next week's European Commission webinar on SEP enforcement: speakers include USPTO's chief policy officer Mary Critharis (and yours truly, too) On Wednesday (May 19, 2021), the fifth webinar of the European Commission's popular series on standard-essential patent (SEP) topics will be held. Its title is "Enforcement of Standard-Essential Patents - current bottlenecks and possible solutions." In a previous post I mentioned I was going to be among the speakers. Meanwhile, the EC's Directorate-General for the Internal Market (DG GROW) has published the agenda. After Judge ...