David Muus

David Muus studied law at Groningen University. David further completed post-graduate education in IP and IT law at Grotius Academy and has received education in communication protocols, with a focus on mobile- and IP-networks.

Before joining Sisvel in 2015, he acted as IP counsel and patent licensing specialist at the Dutch incumbent telecom operator KPN. At Sisvel, David started out from Turin and London where he ran Sisvel’s LTE patent pool and its successor the Mobile Communication Program (MCP). Since 2019 David works from Sisvel’s Barcelona office at the head Sisvel’s cellular team, where he is responsible for all of Sisvel’s cellular SEP licensing activities. This includes Sisvel’s bilateral licensing and litigation activity under the cellular SEPs Sisvel controls, as well as the management of two recently launched patent pools: the 5G Multimode Program, the next generation of the MCP which now focusses on 5G enabled consumer electronics, and Sisvel’s Cellular-IoT program, focused on licensing IoT devices enabled with the LPWAN standards Narrowband-IoT and LTE-M.

The New SEP Powerhouse: How China is Shaping Global Patent Disputes

By Kirti Gupta and Mark Cohen As 5G cellular standards continue to connect billions of smartphones, automobiles, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the licensing of standard essential patents (SEPs) on Fair, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms has emerged as a key interest of businesses and policymakers worldwide. SEPs represent tens of billions of
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Using AI to Analyze the Sentiment of Public Comments on AI and Copyright

This article was originally published on IPWatchDog on May 1st, 2025 By Kirti Gupta and Elias Ilin AI is increasingly becoming integral to the inventive and creative process across a wide range of industries. As Generative AI (“GenAI”) tools transform our workflows, questions at the intersection of AI and
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The damaging impact of tariffs on intellectual property

This article was originally published in IAM on April 24th, 2025 By Kirti Gupta Economic statecraft has reached new levels with the United States levying the steepest increase in tariffs on foreign goods in the last 150 years. While the focus of these tariffs in popular media is consumer
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