The City Law School at City St George’s, University of London will host an evening event to launch the new open-access volume FRAND Cases in Context: Leading Cases Around the World edited by Professor Jorge L. Contreras (University of Utah), published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
The book offers concise summaries and analyses of 28 major decisions on the licensing of standards essential patents (SEPs) on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms from jurisdictions worldwide.
The event will bring together senior members of the judiciary, academics and practitioners to reflect on the development of global FRAND jurisprudence and the role of leading cases in shaping SEP licensing practice. Short interventions will be followed by a Q&A with contributors to the volume and a reception.
About the book
FRAND Cases in Context: Leading Cases Around the World (Edward Elgar, open access) provides practitioner-oriented yet scholarly summaries of key FRAND and SEP decisions across multiple jurisdictions, highlighting their factual background, legal reasoning and impact on global licensing practice.
The volume is edited by Professor Jorge L. Contreras (University of Utah), whose work on standard setting and patent licensing is widely cited in international FRAND debates.
An open-access version of the book is available online via Edward Elgar’s Online platform, alongside a hardback edition for libraries and practitioners.
Programme
- 5:30–5:45 pm – Registration
- 5:45–6:00 pm – Welcome by Enrico Bonadio and introduction by Jorge Contreras (University of Utah)
- 6:00–6:15 pm – Judicial perspectives on “leading” FRAND cases – Lord Justice Arnold
- 6:15–6:20 pm – Academic (and former judicial) perspectives – Sir Robin Jacob
- 6:20–6:35 pm – Practitioner perspectives - Rory Clarke (Kirkland) & Dheemanth Vangimalla (Three New Square)
- 6:35–7:00 pm – Book contributors Q&A - Amandine Leonard (University of Edinburgh), Christoph Rademacher (Waseda University, Tokyo), Enrico Bonadio (City), Juan Camilo Contreras (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia), moderated by Jorge Contreras
- 7:00–8:00 pm – Reception
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