The Hogan Lovells standard essential patent (SEP) update reports on recent news and case decisions from jurisdictions including China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The August 2019 update highlights IPlytics' May 2019 report summarizing its analysis of SEPs declared essential to the 5G standard and Via Licensing Corp.'s announcement that it purchased around 100 Long Term Evolution SEPs owned by Blackberry.

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