SEPs: Secrets solution?
SEPs: Secrets solution? Asia Images Group / Shutterstock.com 27-11-2019 Standard-essential patent owners are looking to the Supreme Court of India to iron out the quirks of ‘confidentiality clubs’ in litigation, explain Pankaj Soni and Ankush Verma of Remfry & Sagar. Many, if not most, patent litigation suits are the result of a breakdown in licensing discussions between the rights owner and the implementer. Standard-essential patents (SEPs) litigations are, perhaps, the poster child for this failure. Without trivialising the complexities involved SEP litigations, the fundamental underlyi...