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SEP holders' potential abusive practices need closer scrutiny: Chinese antitrust lawyer

By MLex Staff ( March 6, 2025, 04:56 GMT | Insight) -- Challenges and uncertainties persist in evaluating abusive practices by innovators who own patents essential to industrial standards, a veteran Chinese antitrust lawyer said today. Determining whether a high royalty rate is unfair and whether holders of standard-essential patents engage in anticompetitive behavior by refusing to license their patents to specific groups of implementers requires closer scrutiny and careful examination, Huang Wei, a partner at Tian Yuan Law Firm, highlighted during a IP conference in Shenzhen.Challenges and uncertainties persist in evaluating abusive practices by innovators who own patents essential to industrial standards, a veteran Chinese antitrust lawyer said today....

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