On November 17-19, 2017, the Small-scale Seminar on “Legal Issues relating to Patent License and Market Competition”, organized by the CASS Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies, was held in Beijing. The seminar was attended by over 40 experts and scholars from various research institutions, universities, judicial organs, lawyers’ circles and business circles in China and aimed at providing a platform for the discussion and solution of various issues relating to patent license and market competition. At the seminar, which was divided into five units, the participants gave presentations and carried out discussions on various issues around the following topics: “disputes over intellectual property license fee and their judicial solution”; “mode of patent license and reflections on related legal issues”; “typical cases of patent license in recent years and related legal issues”; “judicial confirmation of reasonable patent license fee”; and “patent pool license and anti-trust review”. At the end of the seminar, Professor Guan Yuying, Executive Director of CASS Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies, pointed out that the theme of this seminar, “innovation and competition”, was currently the issue of common concern in the field of intellectual property in China. The various controversies over standard essential patent are newly emerged global issues that require the theoretical and practical circles of intellectual property law to jointly carry out research and put forward appropriate solutions. The in-depth discussions carried out in this seminar were conducive to the reaching of consensuses among scholars and practitioners on such issues as the role played by the judiciary in the resolution of disputes over patent license, the innovation of relevant trial mechanisms and procedures, the scope and effect of judicial decisions, and the application of the FRAND principle in the trial of individual cases.