Panel #2 – Global SEP Policy and the Fight to Regulate the Future *

Panel #2 – Global SEP Policy and the Fight to Regulate the Future *

View Session Speakers

The European Union is considering sweeping new regulations for the licensing and litigation of standard essential patents (SEPs). Meanwhile, the European Union continues to march forward with an unfair trade practices case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) asserting “Chinese policy is extremely damaging to innovation and growth in Europe” because European Technology companies are deprived of “the possibility to exercise and enforce the rights that give them a technological edge.”

And even more recently, the United States Patent and Trademark Office held a “public listening session” to hear from industry leaders on the topic of standard essential patents. The event was specifically related to the USPTO’s effort to obtain stakeholder input on questions regarding proposed international standards that were presented in a recent Federal Register Notice, as well as strategies identified in the White House’s National Standards Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies.

Against this backdrop, this panel will discuss the global race to set SEP policy.

Materials

Proposed European SEP Regulation Would Undermine Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Growth

New EU Regulatory Regime for SEPs Will Upend Mobile Telecommunications Sector

Europe’s Schizophrenia on Standard Essential Patents

Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/global-sep-policy