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Standard Setting: Should there be a Level Playing Field for all FRAND Commitments?

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  • Nadia Soboleva

    (Nera Economic Consulting)

  • Lawrence Wu

    (Nera Economic Consulting)

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In the past few years, issues related to FRAND or fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory licensing rates for patents have garnered considerable attention. The issues most often come up in the context of standard-essential patents. However, some FRAND commitments have been undertaken for patents that have not been formally declared as standard essential. In this paper, we consider the development of FRAND-encumbered patents outside the context of a standard-setting organization and the policy issue of whether injunctive relief should apply equally to owners of SSO FRAND-encumbered patents and non-SSO FRAND-encumbered patents. The current legal and economic debate has not explored with much depth the effect of a policy that treats FRAND commitments that are made in the context of an SSO differently from those outside of an SSO.

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  • Nadia Soboleva & Lawrence Wu, 2013. "Standard Setting: Should there be a Level Playing Field for all FRAND Commitments?," Discussion Papers 13-010, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:sip:dpaper:13-010
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