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Global Standards Leadership Conference

The Future of Standard Essential Patents is Here.

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About Standards Leadership Conference

For a third time, Justus Baron (Northwestern University), Kirti Gupta (Cornerstone Research), and Tim Pohlmann (LexisNexis® IPlytics) organized the Global Standards Leadership Conference that brings together thought leaders on wireless technology, global standardization, and standard essential patents (SEPs). After successful events at the Northwestern University of Chicago in 2022 and the University of California San Diego in 2023, the 2024 conference was held at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.

For this year’s edition, the organizers have invited C-level industry experts, leading academics, and policymakers to discuss technological trends such as Artificial Intelligence and IoT in global standardization, recent evolutions in standardization policy, SEP litigation and reforms to the system for licensing Standard-Essential Patents.

The conference featured a mix of keynote addresses, panel discussions, and open debates.

Attendance of this event was free of charge.

Part 1

The future of wireless technology

Key topics discussed in this video include

  • The future role of SEPs and open standards in 6G mobile telecommunications technologies
  • Developing the critical infrastructure for the next generations (ORAN, etc);
  • The role of OSS in mobile telecom networks [NFV, etc]
  • Innovation in the chips that drive wireless technology [e.g. AI-on-5G]
  • New IoT use cases for standard protocols such as NB-IoT, LTE-M, Cat.1

Part 2

 The role of patents and standards for technology leadership

Key topics discussed in this video include

  • SEP licensing – A big picture perspective
  • The 2 paradigms of Standards Activities
  • The role of technology, leadership and engineering.
  • The EU’s plan to set an aggressive royalty cap

Part 3

 New frontiers of SEP licensing

Key topics discussed in this video include:

  • How to deal with new industry verticals, new royalty rate price points, complex value chains and different market expectations to facilitate SEP licensing.
  • How to deal with new emerging venues of SEP licensing disputes including India and South America.
  • Are pools the solution to all challenges? Pools and platforms have gained momentum and companies that never joined pools before are now the founding members.

Part 4

AI & open standards

Key topics for the panel to discuss include:

  • Status of open standards for AI
  • Leadership in AI development, Government policies (AI Act, NIST, etc.)
  • Patenting of AI innovations
  • The role for SEPs in future AI standards

Location

Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley

Spieker Forum, 2220 Piedmont Avenue,
S430, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States

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