FRAND承诺性质争鸣与辨析

Controversy and Discernment on FRAND Commitment Nature

摘要: 如今5G时代的到来，相伴而生着更多的标准必要专利，从而使得标准必要专利中FRAND承诺的问题更为复杂多变。FRAND承诺是标准制定组织权衡专利创新和专利权益后作出的知识产权政策，一方面的价值是约束专利权人，另一方面的价值是救济标准实施者。标准制定组织关于FRAND承诺的内涵未进行详细阐述，因此学术界关于FRAND承诺的性质有单方法律行为说、第三人利益合同说、强制缔约说、要约邀请说，进一步探讨后发现将FRAND承诺的性质理解为单方法律行为说较为妥当。

Abstract: Nowadays, the advent of 5G era is accompanied by more standard-essential patents, which makes the issue of FRAND commitment in standard-essential patents more complicated and changeable. FRAND commitment is an intellectual property policy made by standard-setting organizations after weighing patent innovation and patent rights, and its value is to bind the patentee on the one hand, and the relief of standard implementers on the other. The standard-setting organizations have not elaborated on the connotation of FRAND commitment, so the nature of FRAND commitment in academic circles is said to be unilateral legal act, third party interest contract, compulsory contracting, and invitation to offer, and after further discussion, it is found that the nature of FRAND commitment is more appropriately understood as unilateral legal act.