WIPO report highlights limits of competing FRAND valuation models
By Melissa Ritti ( June 5, 2026, 15:56 GMT | Insight) -- Methodologies for valuing fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory standard-essential patent licenses are improving but remain hampered by evidentiary limitations, disputed assumptions and divergent judicial approaches, according to a new report by the World Intellectual Property Organization.The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this week stopped short of endorsing a single methodology for determining fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) license terms. ...
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