The European Commission’s Proposed SEP Regulation – A Missed Opportunity for Meaningful Reform?

The European Commission’s April 2023 proposal (the “Proposal”) for a European regulation concerning standards-essential patents (“SEPs”) has given rise to a wealth of commentary, criticism and even some praise. In this essay, I offer my perspective on the Proposal, which I find to be a well-intentioned effort intended to address real issues of transparency, consistency and comprehensiveness in the licensing of standards-essential patents (“SEPs”), but which suffers from shortcoming