CJEU sets out FRAND rules for licensors and licensees

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CJEU sets out FRAND rules for licensors and licensees

July 16 2015
CJEU

The owner of a standard essential patent who seeks an injunction must have alerted the alleged infringer and made a “specific, written” licence offer specifying the royalty and the way it is to be calculated, the CJEU said in a case between Huawei and ZTE

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