In the slippery legal concept of FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing, courts are constantly being pulled in to referee what is actually FRAND and what isn’t. Two new patent suits filed this month, both relating to video streaming and codec technologies, will serve as additional barometers in measuring the ever-evolving and elastic definitions of FRAND in this field. The first is from Nokia, which has filed a patent lawsuit against Paramount Skydance for alleged use of Nokia’s backend processes, specifically encoding and transcoding of video. Meanwhile, a Standards Essential Patent (SEP) lawsuit—concerning HEVC (H.265) infringement—was filed earlier this month by Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Institute (ETRI) against Chinese device maker Hisense. Nokia claims that Paramount’s streaming services (Paramount+, Pluto…