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UK Intellectual Property Office consultation garners skepticism over FRAND reform

By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( October 8, 2025, 13:10 GMT | Insight) -- Responses to the UK Intellectual Property Office’s consultation on reform to the country’s approach to standard essential patents, or SEPs, suggest that a proposal to bring greater transparency to the licensing process will be a key point of contention.Submissions to the UK Intellectual Property Office's consultation on SEPs, seen by MLex, show broad opposition to the authority’s proposed Rate Determination Track, or RDT – a new approach for determining fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory rates for SEP licenses. Representatives of both big licensors and smaller companies questioned the feasibility of the RDT as means for addressing concerns over licensing....

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