Identifying Benchmarks for Applying Non-Discrimination in FRAND

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Dennis Carlton, Allan Shampine, Aug 12, 2014

Standard setting organizations have for many years asked members to commit to license patents essential to use of standards on Fair, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory terms. Because SSOs have not defined explicitly what FRAND means, courts and regulators have been forced to interpret it. We have previously written on how standard setting that incorporates patents can lead to complicate