Standard essential patents (SEPs): a new board for the global geostrategic game
Standard essential patents (SEPs) are patents that protect technologies that are indispensable for implementing a technical standard. If a manufacturer wants to comply with the standard —for example 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, video codecs or V2X in automobiles— it cannot “design around” those patents without failing to comply. Essentiality arises within standardisation bodies (SSOs/SDOs) —ETSI, … Read more