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Advocates push for SEP policy in White House manufacturing plan

By Nick Robertson ( April 9, 2026, 18:02 GMT | Insight) -- Standard-essential patent implementors and their industry group advocates are pushing the White House to address SEP policy in the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing. The groups warned that increasing access to injunctive relief would hurt US manufacturers, and criticized changes to inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.Tech companies and component manufacturers want the White House to address standard-essential patent (SEP) policy in the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s forthcoming National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing. ...

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