長澤 健一NAGASAWA Kenichi

METI JPO-RIETI国際シンポジウム標準必須特許を巡る紛争解決に向けて

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March 13, 2018

キヤノン株式会社常務執行役員知的財産法務本部長Group Executive, 

Corporate Intellectual Property & Legal Headquarters, Canon

METI JPO‐RIETI International Symposium ” Toward Solving Disputes over Standard Essential Patents (SEPs): Licensing 5G SEPs”

Consideration Factors For SEP License Negotiation

2018.3.13“Toward Solving Disputes over Standard Essential Patents (SEPs): Licensing 5G SEPs”Panel 1： Ideal Modality of Negotiations on SEP Licensing

Kenichi NagasawaManaging Executive OfficerGroup ExecutiveCorporate Intellectual Property And Legal HeadquartersCanon Inc.

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Recent IP Industry Structure

R&DProperCycle Business

Profit

Patent Trading Market

Troll/Troll like company

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Patentee

Free Ride Company

Cooperation Area Technology

Competition Area Technology

Standard Technology／General-purpose technology

User

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Factors to Be Considered for “Bad Faith” Labeling

“Bad Faith” should be identified based on realities of negotiations

Number of patents and their importance

(Essentiality/Validity)

For many reasons, we may need long term to negotiate

Scope of Products

Case laws(Ex. License Rate)

Contract Provisions(For details, see the next slide)

Bad faith

Patent Pool

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Contract Factors to Be Considered in Actual Business

Making contract requires time to consider many factors

Subject patents other than SEP

Cut-off Date

Get agreement of Senior management

ConfidentialObligation

Change of Control

Subject (Exclude) Product/Technology

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Blanket declarations without identifying specific patents are desirable. Inclusion of reciprocity clause is better.

Transparency of SEP

FRAND Declaration

Blanket declarations & Reciprocity

(Defensive Termination)

It is very difficult to evaluate/consider all the

registered patents respectively

Patentee SDO

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It is important “who” judges the Essentiality of SEPNeed to Consider “how”

Transparency of SEP

Judgment of Essentiality

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Thank you for listening