Sir Robin Jacob – Arbitration is the Best Solution

Sir Robin Jacob highlights that the European Commission shouldn't get involved in deciding whether something is FRAND or not FRAND; they should force parties into arbitration.

Sir Robin Jacob spoke at the Licensing Executives Society International Virtual Annual Conference on May 27-28 on a panel organized by Sisvel and entitled Restored Balance and Clarity in the Innovation Ecosystem.

This is an excerpt from that panel, highlighting that the European Commission shouldn't get involved in deciding whether something is FRAND or not FRAND; they should force parties into arbitration.

Sir Robin joined the Faculty of Laws at University College London as Sir Hugh Laddie Chair of Intellectual Property Law in May 2011. By way of background, Sir Robin started practice at the Intellectual Property Bar in 1967 and from 1976 to 1981 he was the Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and for all Government departments in intellectual property. He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1981. Appointed as a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) in 1993, from 1997 to 2001 Sir Robin was Supervising Chancery Judge for Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2003 and was the Treasurer of Grays Inn in 2007. He continues to sit from time to time in the Court of Appeal and will sometimes act as an arbitrator or mediator.