FOSS Patents: Retired UK judge: ETSI FRAND pledge requires component-level licensing of cellular standard-essential patents
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Retired UK judge: ETSI FRAND pledge requires component-level licensing of cellular standard-essential patents That conclusion didn't surprise me. The ETSI agreement must be interpreted under French law, and at my Brussels conference on component-level SEP licensing in November 2019, French law professor Philippe Stoffel-Munck took the same position. What made the judge's position today particularly noteworthy is that he previously criticized the ETSI FRAND pledge for containing only about half the clarity that he'd like to see in it. He provide one example of such a ...
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