1) Free: Let’s not allow AI slop to pollute the SEP ecosystem with plausible-sounding fake reasoning aka hallucination — let’s make responsible use of AI

The SEP litigation and licensing community should not be gullible. An “analysis” generated by an engine with a 46% hallucination rate had various members of the SEP ecosystem in awe until we flagged one of the issues. It was a biggie, but not the biggest one.

This article explains why the methodology is wrong, why the premise of more data solving the problem is wrong, discusses various particular settlement pressure theories that are wrong, off-base, or partly even nuts (such as going from answer to complaint to patent remedies in W.D. Tex. in four months) -- and toward the end explains how we use GenAI at ip fray with a "Don't trust, but verify!" approach.

2) Free: ip fray’s content team is now complete: patent-specialized journalists and lawyers with a passion for writing

In response to last month’s “job ad” article, we received great reactions. We now have a strong interdisciplinary team, which (for no ideological reason) happens to be quite diverse.

3) Free: ETRI announces $34M annual revenue from standard-essential patents

The Korean research institute has reported its 2025 revenue from licensing standard-essential patents, along with new essentiality declarations.

4) Premium: USDOJ reinforces SEP-related “no presumption” arguments from Disney v. InterDigital in 4th filing adverse to Samsung’s interests

The latest DOJ-ATR filing in support of a SEP holder is essentially just a cover letter for the statement already made in Disney v. InterDigital (same court even).