FRAND

Edited by Peter Georg Picht, Professor, Chair for Business, Competition, and Intellectual Property Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Thomas F. Cotter, Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, USA and Erik Habich, MLaw, PhD Candidate, University of Zurich and Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland

‘This book takes a dual-360° look at German standard-essential patent case law: it covers all key aspects of SEPs and FRAND with a view to German law, but also from the perspective of other jurisdictions. Some of the leading patent judges have contributed. This book is highly recommended for practitioners who are now seeking to become familiar with the currently relevant body of German SEP case law.’

• ContentsPART I GERMAN CASE LAW1 Willingness to license on FRAND terms 2Erik Habich2 FRAND offer 79Erik Habich, Peter Georg Picht, and Thomas F. Cotter3 Reaction duties and frand counteroffer 154Erik Habich and Peter Georg Picht4 Confidentiality 193Erik Habich5 FRAND licensing and SEP transfer 239Erik Habich6 Damages claims 249Erik Habich7 Anti-Antisuit Injunctions 259Peter Georg PichtPART II GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES8 US and German approaches to FRAND disputes: like ships that pass in the night 275Thomas F. Cotter9 Judicial treatment of standard essential patents and FRAND royalties, 2010–2022 298Hon. James L. Robart10 Determination of the global royalty rate of standard essential patents: judicial jurisdiction anddetermination method from Chinese law perspective 303Guangliang Zhang11 The paradox of willingness to license through property and liability rule lenses and theaggregation logic of FRAND: another painting of the cathedral 334Erik Habich12 FRAND and level selection – guidance from the exhaustion doctrine and prior case law onstatutory compulsory licensing? 379Patricia Rombach13 Anti-anti-suit injunctions 397Matthias Zigann and Hubertus Schacht14 Arbitration of FRAND disputes 427Richard Arnold15 FRAND ADR under the Data Act and the SEP Regulation 447Tilman Niedermaier and Peter Georg PichtBibliography 477