Views from the Fair Standards Alliance on the appeal proceedings before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in Unwired Planet vs. Huawei Technologies and Conversant Wireless Licensing vs. Huawei Technologies and ZTE

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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 vs. Huawei Technologies and Conversant Wireless Licensing vs. Huawei Technologies and ZTE and below the key points:

1. Making a FRAND undertaking does not entitle a SEP holder to insist on a global license to their entire portfolio of SEPs
2. The FRAND commitment to license on “non-discriminatory” terms is not limited to circumstances where the discrimination would give rise to competitive distortion
3. The Huawei v ZTE judgment prescribes mandatory steps that an SEP owner must follow before it is entitled to seek an injunction against a willing licensee

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