Global Rate Setting: A Solution for Standard-Essential Patents?
Global Rate Setting: A Solution for Standard-Essential Patents?
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全球费率设定：标准必要专利的解决方案？
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2018
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J. Contreras
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J. Contreras
承诺以公平、合理和非歧视性的条款许可对技术互操作性标准至关重要的专利(FRAND)是一种基本机制，使标准能够由竞争对手集团合作开发。然而，围绕法兰德专利使用费费率的分歧继续困扰着全球科技市场的参与者。有关机会主义拖延和拖延的指控越来越频繁地出现，促使竞争主管部门调查并干预私人标准制定。与遵守法兰德承诺有关的诉讼导致世界各地的法院裁决法兰德特许权使用费费率，通常是在全球范围内，但使用非常不同的方法和理论上的做法。影响法兰德许可证制度的问题可以概括为透明度、一致性和全面性方面的不足。这些问题共同降低了系统的整体公平和效率，并导致过高的行政和交易成本。本文规划了建立全球法兰德费率制定法庭的路线图，通过确定涵盖特定标准的专利的总价值并在个别专利和专利持有人之间分配该价值，促进透明度、一致性和全面性的三方目标。这个法庭是以美国版权使用费委员会和类似的费率制定机构为蓝本的，尽管它不是一个政府机构，而是一个国际非政府组织。希望这样一个法庭将给技术开发生态系统带来更大的可预测性和稳定性，同时减少效率低下的诉讼。
The commitment to license patents that are essential to technical interoperability standards on terms that are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) is a fundamental mechanism that enables standards to be developed collaboratively by groups of competitors. Yet disagreements over FRAND royalty rates continue to bedevil participants in global technology markets. Allegations of opportunistic hold-up and hold-out arise with increasing frequency, spurring competition authorities to investigate and intervene in private standard-setting. And litigation regarding compliance with FRAND commitments has led courts around the world to adjudicate FRAND royalty rates, often on a global basis, but using very different methodologies and doctrinal approaches. The issues affecting the FRAND licensing system can be summarized as deficiencies in transparency, consistency and comprehensiveness. Together, these issues reduce the overall fairness and efficiency of the system and result in excess administrative and transactional costs. This article lays out a roadmap for the establishment of a global FRAND rate-setting tribunal that promotes the tripartite goals of transparency, consistency and comprehensiveness by determining the aggregate value of patents covering a particular standard and allocating that value among individual patents and patent holders. This tribunal is modelled on the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board and similar rate-setting agencies, though it is envisioned not as a governmental body, but an international non-governmental organization. It is hoped that such a tribunal will bring greater predictability and stability to the technology development ecosystem while reducing inefficient litigation.
FRAND 承诺对专利救济的影响
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2018
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University of Utah College of Law Research Paper
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Masabumi Suzuki;Jorge L. Contreras;et al.
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et al.