Essential Interoperability Standards

"The present book, based upon a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Bern, Switzerland, carefully and extensively addresses the legal challenges encountered in the field of standards-essential intellectual property (SEIP), and in particular of standards-essential patents (SEP). Dr Brinsmead analyses different school of thought and approaches in case law, in particular in the EU, the US and China. He carefully studies the background in international law and domestic law, in particular competition law. While the EU and China essentially rely upon competition law and in result on the…