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The High-Stakes SEP Clash: Patent Leverage, Forum Shopping, and Brazil’s Courts

PublishedApril 9, 2026
Written By
  • Carlos Ragazzo

Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) are central to Brazil’s digital transformation. Yet the country’s legal and institutional framework has not evolved at the same pace. Today, Brazilian courts tend to handle SEPs like ordinary patents, applying general injunction standards without accounting for essentiality, FRAND commitments, or the systemic impact of excluding standardized technologies. This approach is misaligned with international practice and creates conditions in which IP enforcement can be converted into bargaining leverage, used to obtain supra-FRAND settlements.

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April 9, 2026

O Conflito de Alto Impacto Envolvendo SEPs: Exercício de Poder Patentário, Seleção Estratégica de Foro e a Atuação dos Tribunais Brasileiros

  • Patents
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April 6, 2026

Rushed AB 1776 Could Cost California $1 Trillion in GDP and 1.6 Million Jobs in 10 Years

California Assembly Bill 1776, also known as the COMPETE Act, is rushing forward before any meaningful official analysis of its expected costs and benefits has been conducted. If enacted, the Compe...

  • Digital Economy
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March 23, 2026

Economic Implications of the European Union Space Act

The study finds that the EU Space Act risks causing economy-wide effects through delayed adoption of new space-based services across the economy. The EUSA would increase manufacturing and design co...

    Space & Spectrum
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March 18, 2026

An Analysis of the Performance of European Venture Capital-Funded Startups

The Digital Markets Act and antitrust enforcer scrutiny eliminated European startup acquisitions by explicitly targeted U.S. companies and reduced European startup acquisitions by other large U.S. ...

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