By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( July 23, 2026, 14:46 GMT | Insight) -- A new European body focused on mediating patent disputes is planning to publish guidelines on how questions of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, rates for standard essential patents, or SEPs, should be handled in arbitration, but participants are divided on how granular the recommendations should be.The participants of a new group within Europe's Unified Patent Court tasked with developing a preliminary draft of guidance for handling fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, disputes in arbitration by September have presented different views on how detailed the guidelines should be, in particular whether they should address underlying economic questions....
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