Technical standards allow devices and services to work together – and SEPs protect those standards. During our Patent Quality Week webinar, PIPLI’s Alex Moss explained how SEPs work and why fair licensing (FRAND) is essential for innovation and market access. 📺 Want to learn

For startups, fair and predictable SEP licensing is essential to innovation and competition. Engine's Jill Crosby discussed this during our recent Patent Quality Week webinar.

Today, Save Our Standards and 7 member associations sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and AG Pam Bondi on DOJ & USPTO positions on patent injunctions in Radian v. Samsung. Read the letter here: saveourstandards.com/wp-content/upl…

What helps your smartphone, Wi-Fi and 5G networks run smoothly together? Standards! Celebrate World Standards Day with us at “FRAND or Foe? The Role of Standards in American Innovation.” 🗓️Tuesday, October 14 📍CTA Innovation House 🔗form.jotform.com/252738439982069

🌎How did you celebrate World Standards Day? At Save Our Standards, we gathered with key policymakers and stakeholders to discuss how fair SEP licensing reinforces America’s role in shaping the global innovation landscape.

As the United States continues to promote AI adoption, we urged the OSTP to back an industry-led approach to AI standardization and stop foreign governments from using SEP injunctions to stall innovation. Read our comments here: saveourstandards.com/wp-content/upl…

We are excited to share that ACT | The App Association & ETSI are forming a new collaborative partnership to provide for greater SME involvement in European standards development. etsi.org/newsroom/news/…

As the USPTO launches its SEP Working Group, SOS looks forward to engaging to ensure its work reflects the unique nature of SEPs and strengthens FRAND’s role in promoting fair competition and U.S. tech leadership. Read our statement here: saveourstandards.com/wp-content/upl…

As more industries rely on collaborative industry standards, markets like streaming are feeling the impact—underscoring the need for fair and balanced licensing. ICYMI: law360.com/articles/24275…

We're looking forward to seeing SOS member Morgan Reed, President of @ACTonline, at next week's State of the Net Conference discussing sovereign AI and the future of global internet governance. The future of innovation depends on strong standards and balanced policies. #SOTN26

👏 During a #SOTN26 panel, SOS member and President of ACT | The App Association, Morgan Reed, discussed the evolving role of standards in the future of AI, highlighting the abusive tactics SEP holders use to stifle innovation.

🖊️ICYMI: Save Our Standards joined several member organizations in urging the Trump administration to withdraw the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s proposed Revision to Rules of Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. 🔗saveourstandards.com/wp-content/upl…

Patent owners and innovators are urging the White House to reconsider the USPTO’s proposed IPR rule, warning it could insulate invalid patents and raise costs for American businesses. Strong innovation requires fair, predictable patent review. Read more from Nick Robertson in

🗞️ICYMI: In a new MLex piece, Save Our Standards warned that injunctions can distort licensing negotiations, inject uncertainty into global markets and drive up costs for American manufacturers and families. 🔗mlex.com/mlex/intellect…

📺 As AI patents surge, more of them will shape the standards that power tomorrow’s technologies. As Morgan Reed, from SOS member @ACTOnline, explained at State of the Net Series on February 9, 2026, when standard essential patents (SEPs) aren’t licensed on FRAND terms, they can become "a weapon to exclude"

ICYMI: SOS submitted comments to The White House OSTP on the National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing. “The United States should be a leader in supporting U.S. advanced manufacturing by taking steps domestically and abroad that promote SEP licensing on a level playing