Development of Adjudicating Global FRAND Rate in China: A review of OPPO v. Sharp

In recent ten years, the Chinese courts have heard a series of SEP cases and are becoming more deeply involved in the international SEP disputes through anti-suit injunctions, anti-anti-suit injunctions, global royalty rate rulings, etc. In August 2021, the Supreme People’s Court of China explicitly confirmed the Chinese courts’ authority on adjudicating global FRAND rates for SEPs for the first time in the OPPO v. Sharp case, which attracted great attention in the field of mobile communicat