The authors and co-authors represented more than twenty academic institutions from three continents. Distributed in a plenary session and several parallel ones, the papers covered timely and contentious issues, such as SEP-related jurisdictional and trade conflicts, the existence of hold-out by implementers, the determination of FRAND licensing levels in complex value chains or the merits of different approaches designed to improve SEP-transparency, as well as recent developments in national patent laws. A roundtable with industry representatives helped to link the academic perspective to market realities. The conference ended with a keynote speech by Michael A. Carrier, who did not only provide a solid trans-Atlantic perspective, but insightfully outlined the manifold and demanding challenges SEPs will still pose in future.
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