Published: May 18, 2018
Publisher: FOSS Patents
Given the importance of this subject, I’ll now republish an open letter that 77 former government officials and professors (of law, economics, and business) have sent Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim in order to remind him of long-standing and consistent U.S. policies on standard-essential patents (SEP) under both Republican and Democratic administrations. Mr. Delrahim’s outlier positions are disconcerting indeed. Access to standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms is not a “left or right” question.