Welcome to the latest edition of the Sisvel Insights weekly round-up, aggregating news stories, analyses and data points affecting the SEP world that have caught our eye over the past seven days.

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Transparency and predictability are frequently cited as desired outcomes from patent licensing agreements. An article written by Sisvel senior legal counsel Christine Walmsley-Scott and published last week explains how the adoption of uniform running royalties – implemented through patent pools – are a way to achieve these.

In a compelling piece, Walmsley-Scott outlines the advantages that running royalty rates deliver, including eliminating guesswork, thus providing cost certainty for implementers and stable revenue aligned with real-world market activity for licensors; significantly reducing the incentives to engage in hold-out; and making it easier for both courts and mediators to assess comparables, meaning that extensive disclosure of sensitive sales data in litigation is far less necessary. This is an article that licensors, licensees and policymakers should all take the time to read.

Elsewhere, Sisvel announced a deal with Quectel that will allow the module maker’s customers to secure streamlined access to licences offered by our Cellular IoT pool; while the UPC Court of Appeal made its first referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union, with a series of questions relating to the contentious issue of long-arm jurisdiction. There was coverage, too, of the intensifying debate in the US about the thorny issue of injunctions in SEP cases.

Please note that the inclusion of a piece in the list below does not signify agreement with what is stated in the linked article – just that we believe it is of interest and worth flagging.

Market

Sisvel and Quectel have announced an agreement that will provide the module supplier’s customers with streamlined access to Sisvel Cellular IoT pool licences. Read more (Sisvel Newsroom)

Avanci has launched a Wi-Fi 6 vehicle programme with 10 patent owners and Mercedes-Benz as a licensee. Read more (IAM) 🔒

China pays around $4 to $5 in IP royalties for every dollar it receives, compared to the $20 it paid out for every dollar it took in a decade ago. Read more (Ryan Featherston, CSIS blog)

ICT drove another increase in Patent Cooperation Treaty filings in 2025, according to new data released by WIPO. Read more (WIPO press release)

Legal

In its first-ever referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union, the UPC Court of Appeal has requested guidance on issues relating to long-arm jurisdiction. Read more (Juve). See also UPC Court of Appeal Order, 6 March

Wilus has brought a motion for partial summary judgment in the Eastern District of Texas on the suspensionof its FRAND licensing obligation with regard to both Samsung and Askey. Read more (ip fray) 🔒

Philips has extended its long-running US patent dispute with Quectel to the UPC. Read more (IAM) 🔒

Continued frictions between UK courts and the UPC were evident at a High Court hearing of Amazon v InterDigital before Justice Meade. Read more (ip fray) 🔒

Policy & Opinion

Patent pools with transparent running royalty rates benefit the licensing ecosystem, bringing clarity and predictability to emerging verticals. Read more (Sisvel Insights)

With foreign courts embracing injunctions in SEP suits, the US has a decision to make about whether to follow the same path. Read more (MLex) 🔒

Interest groups representing big tech and the automotive sector are lobbying Brussels to curb patent injunctions. Read more (MLex) 🔒

SEP licensing should create a level playing field. However, what one side views as reluctance to deal the other may see as disciplined risk management. Read more (Sonja London, LinkedIn)

Congressman Darrell Issa – a California Republican who currently chairs the House subcommittee on IP – will not seek reelection. Read more (POLITICO)

Strategy & Analysis

Procedural strategy, not technical infringement, is becoming the decisive factor in modern SEP conflicts – a point neatly illustrated by Amazon v InterDigital. Read more (Nisith Desai Associates, Lexology)

Implementers must carefully consider whether UK rate-setting cases are an economically feasible injunction-avoidance strategy following recent Munich Regional Court decisions. Read more (CMS)

There is an active secondary market for base station patents, many of which are also declared SEPs. Read more (IAM) 🔒

A consequential debate is emerging over which layer of the 6G technology stack will determine control of next-generation wireless networks. Read more (Jim Harlan LinkedIn)