Standard Essential Patents should be licensed on Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory terms. How?
The rates should reflect the value of the invention only, no more, no less.
Licenses for SEPs should be available at any point in the value chain.
Transparency should be encouraged to create greater predictability and avoid discrimination.
A FRAND rate must take into account the overall royalty that could be reasonably charged for all SEPs.
The FRAND commitment must follow
the SEP in transfers.
Injunctions should only be available in
exceptional circumstances.
Our members are the beating heart of IoT innovation: from SMEs to multinational brands, and including SEP holders as well as SEP implementers.
FSA members benefit from the knowledge and activities of an association focused on the promotion of policy principles for FRAND licensing.
A set of recommendations on standard essential patent (SEP) licensing through patent pools, prepared by the Fair Standards Alliance (FSA), a voice of more than
Brussels, 6 November, 2019 – Patent pools whose licensing practices are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) would benefit both standard-essential patent (SEP) owners and innovative
Please see here the views from the Fair Standards Alliance on the appeal proceedings before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in Unwired Planet
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Fifty six organizations from a diverse range of industries, up and down the innovation value chain, are pleased to announce today the publication of a
Brussels, 4 June, 2019 – The Fair Standards Alliance (FSA) welcomes Kamstrup, an intelligent energy and water metering company, as its newest member. The FSA
Amidst the growing threat to competition and innovation caused by anticompetitive practices related to standard-essential patents (SEPs), an alliance of companies, organizations, and industries demanding
The Board of the Fair Standards Alliance (FSA), a trade association that advocates fairer licensing of technology that is important to ever more contemporary business
