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Analyzing SEPs: Strategies to Avoid or Prepare for Litigation

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Standard essential patent (SEP) licensing and litigation continues to dominate major legal headlines. This is unsurprising: These disputes often implicate global patent portfolios — sometimes including thousands of patents — and encompass multiple parallel litigations around the world. Standardized technologies are incorporated into most modern products and, as such, a working knowledge of SEP issues is critical for most companies today.

In a recent article published in the Licensing Executives Society International journal les Nouvelles, attorneys Benjamin Elacqua, Scott Flanz, Christopher Green, and Peter (Tae) Hong provide a primer on SEP issues, including background on technical standards and SEPs, obligations imposed on SEP holders, and key considerations in preparing for SEP litigation.

PDF copy available (originally published in Les Nouvelles)

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