Valuing Standard Essential Patents

If you don’t know the answers to questions such as these, you really should listen to this webinar:

• •How FRAND licensing terms can be deconstructed
• •How courts have determined acceptable royalty stacking arrangements
• •How SEP licensing models account for contributions from multiple patents, including floors, caps, rate schedules, and per-unit royalties
• •The difference between top-down and bottom-up methods for determining FRAND royalty rates
• •Why discrepancies exist in counting both individual innovators’ SEPs and the total SEPs covering a standard
• •The steps established by Huawei v. ZTE for triggering injunctions
• •Whether individual patent filings or patent families are counted as standard-essential patents
• •Why determining SEP essentiality is so costly
• •Criteria patents must meet to comply with a standard, including essentiality, claims, specifications, and being practiced
• •Obligations of members of standard-setting organizations
• •The role of the “honor system” in declaring and determining essentiality
• •Differences between SEPs, cross-licensing arrangements, and patent pools
• •The distinction between “hold-up” and “hold-out” negotiation strategies

Course Leader

Erik Chmelar, Ph.D., Senior Associate, DilworthIP

Erik Chmelar works at the intersection of technology, business, and law, drawing on more
than 20 years of experience as an engineer, research scientist, entrepreneur, professor,
and patent attorney.

His background spans advanced semiconductor technologies, medical devices, surgical
robotics, startup leadership, and expert witness work, enabling him to craft patents
that withstand scrutiny in licensing negotiations and litigation.

Course Length

Approx. 1.5 hours

Pricing

$295.00 per user