Düsseldorf Court Refers SEP Questions to CJEU

In what may prove to be the most consequential SEP/FRAND decision yet, the Düsseldorf Landgericht yesterday in Nokia v. Daimler referred a lengthy series of questions to the CJEU, relating to whether European Union competition law requires component-level licensing, and also requesting clarification of several issues concerning interpretation of the CJEU's 2015 decision in Huawei v. ZTE.  I will probably have more to say about this in due time, but today (the day after Thanksgiving) is a quasi-holiday in the U.S.  For now, I refer readers to informative posts by Florian Mueller on FOSS Patents and Léon Dijkman on IPKat, and to a briefer write-up on Bloomberg Law.