Jacob, Robin;
Nikolic, Igor;
(2023)
The future of standard essential patent licensing: from courts to national regulators?
Intellectual Property Quarterly
, 4
pp. 252-273.
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Abstract
The article considers the European Commission’s Proposed Regulation on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and assesses its impact on the future of SEP licensing. It shows that available evidence does not demonstrate the existence of market failures justifying extensive regulatory intervention. Moreover, the proposed Regulation pursues the redistributive function of shifting the costs to only one group—SEP owners—while conferring the benefits to standard-implementers. The extraterritorial effects of the Regulation may invite other countries to follow the example and introduce their own regulatory regimes for national SEPs. Licensing disputes would be transferred from courts into the hands of national regulators. Private ordering instruments might provide balanced and cost-effective solutions to any potential inefficiencies while leaving dispute resolution to courts, which have proved more than capable of resolving ever-complex issues in SEP licensing.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The future of standard essential patent licensing: from courts to national regulators? |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Product/Intellectual... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Compulsory licensing; EU law; Fair reasonable and non-discriminatory terms; Mobile telephony; Standard-essential patents |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181063 |




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