The UK’s Role as a Venue for FRAND Litigation: Have the UK Courts Gone Far Enough?

The licensing of SEPs for cellular mobile technology is a global matter — standards, technologies, and the scope of many licensees’ operations are global or at least multi-national. Unfortunately, there is no unified global adjudicatory system that would enforce the rights of IP owners when licensing negotiations fail. Patent owners must enforce their patent rights by litigating over specific patents in specific jurisdictions. This raises the costs of enforcement and favors hold-out strategi