5G SEPs – How Can Early Implementers Predict Aggregate Royalties?

David Kennedy and Larry Tedesco write about standards development organizations and the FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) commitment; provide an overview of the expected social and economic global impact of 5G; and discuss methodologies that, for planning purposes, an early implementer might use to estimate the future standard-essential patent (SEP) royalty stack on a 5G handset.

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