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SEP holders, users should agree on licensing level, EU's Régibeau says

By Khushita Vasant
  • 29 Oct 2020 07:43
  • 29 Oct 2020 07:43

Standard-essential patent holders and owners should agree on a level of licensing among themselves as EU antitrust enforcers can't help the two sides arbitrate between business models, a senior official has said.

The European Commission’s chief economist for competition Pierre Régibeau pointed out that SEP holders that insist on licensing

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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