Access to standard essential patents and antitrust enforcement: the case for licensing component manufacturers
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standard essential patents (SEPs)
FRAND licenses
refusal to license
licensing at component level
technical standards

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Sikorski, R. (2020). Access to standard essential patents and antitrust enforcement: the case for licensing component manufacturers. Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny I Socjologiczny, 82(2), 19–33. https://doi.org/10.14746/rpeis.2020.82.2.2

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The ability to compete on numerous markets today depends on access to technological standards. When standards are protected by standard essential patents (SEP), a license to use such SEPs will be required. There have been numerous disputes in various jurisdictions over refusals to license SEPs. Most recently, disputes concern access to SEPs by the manufacturers of components. Some SEP holders deny access to their standard essential patents to component manufacturers and prefer to license end product producers. This practice has become a highly contentious issue around the world. In particular, manufacturers of components who are denied access to SEPs claim that such refusals amount to violations of competition rules. The author examines this highly contested practice is an attempt to show when denying access to an SEP license could harm competition.

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