Standard Essential Patents Implementations in the European Union

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2023-5

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Demirkan Delice, Şenay

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Standard essential patents (SEPs) are the patents related to patented technologies that are incorporated in standards and they ensure interoperability, compatibility and economies of scale in the market. SEPs have critical importance for the Single Market, digitalisation and technological advancement in the European Union (EU). This thesis explores the SEP related policies of the EU through investigating SEP related legal instruments, European Commission’s actions, European Commission’s SEP related investigations and the Court of Justice of the EU rulings. The study shows that SEP related disputes and problems have been increasing in the EU significantly and this increase has adverse effects on the market dynamics and technological developments where current EU policies remain inadequate in finding solutions. There is a need of a comprehensive SEP policy development and legal certainty in the SEP area in the EU. In this study, the SEP related policies and implementations in Türkiye are also examined. SEP is a newly explored area by the industry and the government institutions in Türkiye; intense focus, awareness increase and collaboration amond entities are required to be more effective in the SEP environment.

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Standard essential patents, Competition, Innovation, Intellectual property, European Union

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103744

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis