By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( May 12, 2026, 12:09 GMT | Insight) -- Nokia can make Acer and Asus take part in arbitration as part of its obligation to offer fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms for its standard essential patents, or SEPs, a UK court has said. Nokia successfully appealed a lower court ruling which said that having the terms of an SEP license dependent on arbitration imposed unfair conditions on the hardware manufacturers.Nokia’s bid to require Acer and Asus to enter into arbitration to reach fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, terms for licensing of the Finnish patent owner’s standard essential patents was granted by the UK Court of Appeal on Tuesday....
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