Legal Issues and Solutions to Improve the Standard Essential Patents Ecosystem : Competition, Transparency, and Frameworks. Associate Professor Guido Noto La Diega’s Response to the Call for Views 'Standard Essential Patents and Innovation' (UK Intellectual Property Office 2022)

This paper is a submission of evidence aimed at she light on some issues related to the Standard Essential Patents (SEP) ecosystem and to provide workable solutions. SEP are patents that protects technologies that are essential to implementing a standard (e.g. 5G, Bluetooth, etc.).Between December 2021 and March 2022, the UK Government sought views as to whether the Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) framework is functioning efficiently and strikes the right balance for all entities involved. This exercise was part of the "UK Innovation Strategy: leading the future by creating it", which set out the government’s long-term plan for delivering innovation-led growth. The call for views and this submission focus on issues of (i) competition and market functioning, (2) transparency; (3) frameworks