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Podcast: Nokia, Audi and Bird & Bird debate FRAND

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Clemens Heusch at Nokia (left), Richard Vary at Bird & Bird (middle), Matthias Schneider at Audi (right)

Richard Vary, Clemens Heusch and Matthias Schneider reveal their views on component-level versus end-point licensing and Unwired Planet

To listen to the full podcast, which is around 40 minutes, click the link above.

In the first of three Bird & Bird-sponsored podcasts, Americas editor Patrick Wingrove spoke to Richard Vary, partner at Bird & Bird, Clemens Heusch, global head of dispute resolution at Nokia, and Matthias Schneider, chief licensing officer at Audi, about standard essential patent licensing.

Here, Vary, Heusch and Schneider debate issues of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms in the context of component-level versus end-point licensing, and the recent UK Supreme Court decision in Unwired Planet v Huawei.

We would like to thank Bird & Bird for making this podcast possible and for lending the necessary expertise in this matter. 

To discuss the details of this episode and find out how Bird & Bird can make the most of your IP portfolio, please contact Richard Vary.


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