A trial to resolve the rate
Apple and Ericsson are fighting over what Apple should pay to license the patents covering 5G connectivity and networking technology—specifically the rates for patents deemed essential by a European standards organization.
Companies that collaborate on standards-essential patents pledge to license them on “fair reasonable and non-discriminatory”—or FRAND—terms, a phrase that has been litigated in so-called FRAND trials.
In the first ...