Published: November 2017
By: Karl Heinz Rosenbrock
The ETSI IPR Policy maintains this balance by requiring every ETSI member to use reasonable endeavours to inform ETSI of ESSENTIAL IPRs in a timely fashion. Once an Essential IPR is identified, the IPR owner is asked to make an irrevocable undertaking in writing that it is prepared to grant irrevocable licences on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND)
terms and conditions under the IPR. In order to facilitate the process of notification of Standards Essential Patents (“SEPs”), members can use General Declarations by which they make an irrevocable undertaking that they are prepared to grant licenses under FRAND terms and conditions for all their SEPs within a given standardization area.