FRAND

Republic of Korea’s Highest Court Upholds Landmark KFTC Corrective Order in Support of FRAND

Last month, the Supreme Court of Korea, the Republic of Korea's highest court, issued an important ruling that will have a wide impact on standard essential patents (SEPs) and fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing practices. In December 2016, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) issued a Corrective Order against [...]

By Association for Competitive Technology|2018-09-20T16:35:00-04:00December 13th, 2017|Blog, Courts, FRAND, Innovation and IP, Patents|

Don’t Let Europe Turn its Back on Open Standards by Legalizing Patent Trolling

Europe has long been a leader in the development and deployment of both open standards as well as the technologies these standards drive. Everyone agrees that open standards play a critical role in interoperability, innovation, and competition. Open standards enabled me to build an ICT consulting firm in Alicante, Spain [...]

By Fernando Guerrero|2018-09-20T16:53:24-04:00April 5th, 2017|Blog, European Union, FRAND, Innovation and IP, Open Standards, Patents|