Theory and practice of intellectual property
№ 3 / 2023
ISSN (Print) 2308-0361
ISSN (Online) 2519-2744
PDF (Ukrainian)DOI: https://doi.org/10.33731/32023.282172
Submitted 2023-04-10
Accepted 2023-05-30
Published 2023-06-19
Standards Essential Patents for new technologies
Alla Romashko
Ph.D. (Engineering), Associate Professor of the Department of Machine Design of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute»
Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-8880
Grygoriy Dorozhko
Ph.D. (Engineering), Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Intellectual Property Scientific Research Institute of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine
Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6506-3203
Oleksandr Kravets
Ph.D. (Engineering), Associate Professor of the Department of Machine Design of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute»
Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7468-0956
Abstract
The practice of innovative activity in Ukraine indicates low implementation of inventions. In cases where the invention is made to the order of a business, it really works and provides a certain benefit in the economy of the enterprise and the country. But most of the developments brought to the stage of protection are developed by individuals and institutions of higher education, which do not have an effective mechanism for their commercialization within Ukraine, and not all reach the markets of other countries. Patent owners do not always understand the procedures for converting their patents into SEPs in order to apply them in standards and further licensing (with the possibility of even issuing a worldwide license). The purpose and objectives of the study are to define the essence of SEP, to analyze the policies of individual standardization organizations regarding SEP, to study the experience and approaches of the European Commission regarding SEP, to develop normative legal acts and to provide recommendations to SEP owners when converting their patents into SEP with the aim of applying them in standards and further licensing Thus, today in the field of SEP, the following process participants can be distinguished: standardization organizations, SEP owners, patent pool administrators (very often, but not always), users of the standard and consumers of the final product. Therefore, it becomes important for patent owners to find joint activities with standardization organizations to participate in the development of a standard to convert their patent into a SEP in order to use it in a specific regulatory document (standard). Clearly, transparent assessment procedures and reasonable (FRAND-wise) licensing conditions must be created for SEP identification, which is currently often a trial-and-error process. It should be noted that the processes related to SEP are not defined by the regulatory legal acts of Ukraine, despite the fact that they can be useful both for creative workers and institutions, as well as for product manufacturers and users of standards. At the same time, attention should be paid to obtaining educational competencies by masters of universities in technical, economic, and intellectual property matters, to which it is necessary to add competence in the field of standardization.
Keywords: SEP, patents, patent pool, licensing, FRAND, standards, standardization
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