IPWatchdog Unleashed

WIPO on Standard Essential Patents: At the Crossroads of Patent Law and Standardization

Gene Quinn Season 2 Episode 32

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed Gene interviews András Jókúti, Director of the Patent Technology Law Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Gene and András discuss WIPO's three-year strategy on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), why WIPO will be placing so much focus on SEPs over the next few years, the importance for WIPO to approach the task in a way that maintains neutrality, how WIPO plans to drive the conversation, bringing together implementers and innovators and those who are both implementers and innovators, fostering collaboration and cooperation, and also some of the substantively thorny issues presented by determining what is (and what is not) fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND). Gene and András also discuss the upcoming WIPO Global SEP Symposium. 

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