Global courts converging on FRAND approach
By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( June 25, 2026, 15:09 GMT | Insight) -- Courts around the world are adopting increasingly similar approaches to determining fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory rates in disputes over standard essential patents. A new report shows that comparing similar licenses, moderated by some top-down analysis, has become the global norm.After a decade in which judges bounced between preferring to look at comparable licenses and carrying out their own top-down analysis, courts around the world appear to have largely settled on a comparables approach with some top-down sense-checking as the most common approach....
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