Yet standards essential patents must be licensed on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory grounds (FRAND).
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For this, they agree on what is called a Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory, or FRAND, license agreement.
It is important to ensure that new or reinforced safety and emission standards are WTO-consistent and non-discriminatory.
The global system for licences allows for rival companies to agree the use of patents under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions.
He says ASEAN countries deserve praise for cutting tariffs in a non-discriminatory way (ie, on goods produced both inside and outside ASEAN).
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Holders of SEPs are obliged to licence the patent's use to competitors in return for a fee on so-called fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (Frand) terms.
"The search for answers must be transparent and non-discriminatory, " he says.
Precisely because the licence has to be on FRAND terms: non-discriminatory.
Given that these are standards essential patents then you (or Samsung in this case) have already agreed to license them on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
The talks are centring on what are known as fair, resasonable and non-discriminatory-type patents (FRAND) for innovations that are recognised as being critical to an industry standard.
And part of having your patent incorporated into a standard is that you must licence them on a FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) terms to anyone who asks.
So long as the state can come forward with some neutral, non-discriminatory reason for the law, even if that's a pretext, it looks like the law will generally be upheld.
By law, any patents that are deemed to be necessary to make a standards compliant product must be licensed by the patent owner at fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
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"Micromax is committed to negotiating a FRAND license with Ericsson as Ericsson has undertaken to providing a Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) license to Micromax, " the Indian company said in a statement.
The only way around this simple fact is to discard any notion of non-discriminatory taxation and equal treatment under the law and design the tax code as a punitive instrument to redistribute income.
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In a somewhat more significant part of the deal, Google also agreed to make its standards-essential patents available on so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms without using injunctions to block their use by rivals.
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Newcomers seldom have non-discriminatory access to transmission networks.
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But he said there's no concrete evidence of the number of voters who are disadvantaged and without such proof, a law that's non-discriminatory on its face and has a legitimate anti-fraud purpose cannot be struck down.
Microsoft's lawsuit states that Google had requested an excessive amount of money for its Frand-type patents - rights that were supposed to be offered on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms since Motorola had acknowledged their critical status.
In a statement the Council said it "notes with deep regret that Turkey, despite repeated calls, continues refusing to fulfil its obligation of full, non-discriminatory implementation of the Additional Protocol" - a reference to the Turkish boycott of customs arrangements with Cyprus.
The meeting mostly helped whittle down the subjects for the closed meetings, which should focus on how much of a curb there should be on injunctions as well as the definition of just what the "reasonable" in Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) patent licensing terms should mean.
The administration of justice, including law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies and, especially, an independent judiciary and legal profession in full conformity with applicable standards contained in international human rights instruments, are essential to the full and non-discriminatory realization of human rights and indispensable to the processes of democracy and sustainable development.
Through an innovative regulatory process set up by the government and the regulator, the main barriers to the deployment of micro-power, such as grid access, are being addressed, and Britain is one of the first countries to have a clear, non-discriminatory access regulation for micro-generators that is supported by the regulator.
Speakers attacked the plans for cutting key routes, potentially damaging the taxi industry and for being discriminatory towards non-locals.
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