The USPTO has signed onto the Justice Department’s rollback of guidance for standard-essential patents.

Seven years ago, DOJ’s Antitrust Division and the PTO issued a policy statement advising the International Trade Commission that the public interest may preclude exclusion orders when patent holders have committed to license SEPs on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms and implementers are willing to negotiate in good faith.

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