Open standards

09/07/2025

The Commission’s guidance on the creation of an Automotive Licensing Negotiating Group for SEPs threatens innovation and may harm consumers  

IP Europe respectfully disagrees with the European Commission’s conclusion that the proposed Automotive Licensing Negotiation Group (ALNG) does not raise competition concerns. In practice the ALNG […]
10/06/2025

Open letter fact-checking European automakers’ recent false claims about patent licencing

IP Europe has sent the following letter fact-checking European automakers’ recent false claims about patent licensing to the intellectual property experts of all European Union member […]
26/02/2025

Planned withdrawal of the SEPs regulation is good news for European innovation 

We support the European Commission’s focus on regulatory simplification and in particular its decision to withdraw the proposal to regulate standard-essential patents (SEPs) from its Work Programme. The SEPs proposal […]