Published: October 20, 2017
Publisher: IP Pro Patents
“The App Association (ACT) and the Fair Standards Alliance have penned a letter to European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENLEC) lambasting a recently created draft project plan for a code of conduct on licensing standard-essential patents (SEPs) for 5G and the internet of things.
The letter said that a workshop, held on 6 October by CEN/CENLEC was intended to provide a forum for a “narrow group of companies with business models based on the licensing of SEPs”, using CEN/CENLEC’s name and logo to “endorse a set of purported ‘best practices’ in licensing negotiations that ultimately will serve the interests of that narrow group only, to the detriment of the rest of the industry.”