🔍 For Europe's automotive sector to truly thrive patent reforms must be part of the strategy. New regulation like the SEP regulation should move forward without hesitation. (6/6)

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🤝 The "European Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Alliance" is promising but without addressing the underlying patent framework issues, European manufacturers will continue to face unfair disadvantages. (5/6)

However, the current legal framework in the EU for asserting and licensing patents, including SEPs, has been failing. It enables patent holders playing unfair and extracting excessive fees, which harms the competitiveness of European manufacturers. (4/6)

🔧 The announced measures comprise standardizing hardware and software building blocks, and a "level playing field" package. In many cases, hardware and software is subject to patents. (3/6)

❓ What's missing? The critical modernization of Europe's patent framework - both through advancement, instead of withdrawal, of the SEP Regulation and targeted amendments to the IPRED to ensure proportionality in patent enforcement. (2/6)