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Thursday, February 11, 2021 European Commission's expert group report on standard-essential patents uses misnomers "license to all" and "access to all" Yesterday evening by Central European Time, the European Commission's Directorate-General for the Internal Market (DG GROW) published ( When the expert group was formed in 2018, I was extremely skeptical. It looked to me like the deck was stacked against SEP implementers. I was very vocal about that concern, but the report that has been published is all about pluralism, not a particular agenda. It reflects a diversity of views and ideas, and...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. If you are new to the field of Intellectual Property, you may need help understanding the thickets of jargon in legal documents and formal conversations. Here is a sampling of some of the most important terms you will encounter (and a few that are too intriguing not to mention). In addition, we have put together a comprehensive glossary that can help you further broaden the knowledge of this industry, available for download below. Abandonment: This occurs when an owner / inventor surrenders...

I. Introduction On November 26, the Dusseldorf Regional Court handed down a long awaited decision in the so-called automotive patent wars (case ID 4c O 17/19). The court referred heatedly debated questions in connection with the enforcement of standard essential patents (“SEPs”) to the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”). The detailed set of questions addresses two main issues: 1. Whether the entity selling a device (here a car) that includes a component that implements the technology protected by the SEP would be in compliance with the FRAND procedure set out by the CJ...