Chinese Court’s Global SEP Royalties Decision Signals Broader Threat to Western Tech Innovation

Reasonable compensation for standard essential patent (SEP) holders is crucial to create the incentives for adequate investments in standards. In particular, high-quality standards have underlain the development and proliferation of the global wireless technologies that have played such a central role in the innovation-driven growth of the internet economy. (For the key role of strong standards in technological innovation, see, for example, here, here, here, and here). It follows that the discriminatory reduction of compensation for SEP holders would reduce their incentives to participate and invest in standard setting. This in turn would reduce quality of future standards that will be key to economic growth and vitality. Recent Posts Chinese Court’s Global SEP Royalties Decision Signals Broader Threat to Western Tech Innovation Patent Applications Published After the Priority Date of a Challenged Patent Are Not ‘Printed Publications’ for IPRs The TRUMP TOO SMALL Case Obscures Larger Lanham Act Problems Tillis and Coons Introduce Bill to Study Bayh-Dole Reporting Processes Kroger Asks SCOTUS to Fix Circuit Inconsistencies in Likelihood of Confusion Analysis