“This is my fourth blog post today on a FRAND statement by a major tech company,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.

“In the first one, I published an Apple letter (dated November 11, 2011, but discovered only yesterday) to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), proposing a framework that would give meaning to FRAND,” Mueller reports. “Microsoft issued a statement today that also advocates a set of helpful FRAND rules (four items in that case). Google, quite unfortunately, proposes a definition of FRAND that makes mockery of the term.’

Mueller reports, “But for the final post today, I have good news: Cisco Systems wrote a letter to ETSI last week that is a wholesale endorsement of Apple’s proposals. I obtained this letter only today…”

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