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BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The European Commission filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Monday against what it said was China’s “unfair and illegal” practice of setting worldwide royalty rates for EU standard essential patents without the patent owner’s consent.
The Commission, which oversees the trade policy of the 27-nation European Union, said China had empowered its courts to set worldwide rates for high-tech EU companies, notably in the telecoms sector.
Iiuc, there’s a group of pattens that are necessary to build technology like 5G and others. Those patents are coshared between different companies, China has a policy to sell access to those patents at the same price everywhere. The EU says that this is unfair to European patents holders, because they need to lower the price in markets that could pay more, like Europe, to compete against China.