He is vice-president of a new organization called Scientists and Environmentalists for Population Stabilization (SEPS).

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This ruling says that you cannot use SEPs to win an injunction barring products from sale.

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Various people are suing various other people using sometimes those SEPs and sometimes those that are not.

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Apple, on the other hand, has no SEPs: but it does have a lot of design and other, not SEP, patents.

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Except in truly extreme cases, standards essential patents (SEPs) cannot be used to argue for sales bans on the offending products.

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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.

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They withdrew their applications across several European countries when the Commission made it very clear that they did not approve of using SEPs in that manner.

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The dispute revolves around the use of what are known as standard-essential patents (SEPs) - patents that are deemed essential to the operation of standards such as mobile phone signal.

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It was almost a year ago to the day that the European Commission began investigating Motorola over reported abuse of its standard-essential patents (SEPs), and now the regulators have a little more to say on the matter.

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