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Patent implementers eye victory in EU tech-transfer rules revamp

By Jean Comte and Inbar Preiss ( October 8, 2025, 13:58 GMT | Comment) -- Carmakers and other IP-intensive industries are likely to welcome a planned revamp of the EU’s competition rules for technology transfer, that would make it easier for them to jointly negotiate with patent owners. But details and conditions are tricky, and patent owners are expected to strongly push back against the text, which is still a draft on which the European Commission is gathering feedback until Oct. 23.Patent implementers across the EU have good reason to rejoice. In September, the European Commission took a key step toward one of the sector's long-standing requests: It inserted Licensing Negotiation Groups — LNGs — into the list of arrangements that could be exempted from antitrust scrutiny in technology transfer....

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