IPO Consults SMEs on SEP Licensing
Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert On the day that my article Patents - Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd. and others appeared in which I discussed Mr Justice Mellor's 225-page judgment in Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd. and others [2023] EWHC 539 (Pat ), the Intellectual Property Office ("IPO") announced a questionnaire on standard essential patents ("SEPs") for SME small-cap and mid-cap businesses. This follows an earlier consultation on SEP licensing that the IPO launched on 7 Dec 2021. I discussed it in IPO Consultation on SEPs and Innovation on 19 Dec 2021. The IPO received 56 responses to that consultation. The names of the respondents appear in Annex A to a Summary of Responses to the Call for Views . Their responses are analysed in that document. Bearing in mind the costs of FRAND litigation and that it seems to involve only mass...