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Roku puts global FRAND question to US appeal court in rift with patent pool

By Melissa Ritti ( October 21, 2025, 18:04 GMT | Comment) -- A former US Patent and Trademark Office official last week warned that a reluctance by US courts to declare global fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) license terms is putting US innovators at a disadvantage. Roku yesterday presented the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit with an opportunity to buck that trend.A request for a declaration of global fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) terms for a license to High Efficiency Video Coding standard essential patents (SEPs) was wrongly rejected as “merely advisory” where US patents comprise only a portion of the Access Advance HEVC patent pool, Roku told the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday....

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