Abstract: The technical standards are playing a more and more significant role in the international market competition in the context of today’s continuous development of knowledge economy. More and more multinational enterprises choose to bring their patents into the technical standards and construct patent barriers of technical standards. With the continuous fusion of standards and patents, the patent license problems in the standards are becoming more and more complicated and outstanding. From the combination of patents and standards, this papre points out the general process of patent license after the combination. Taking the life cycle of the standards into account, it also analyzes the patent license problems and the degree of prominence in the standards during the four stages of the technical standards: the introduction stage, the growth stage, the mature stage and the decline stage, with a concentration on the patent license problems at the growth stage. At last, it puts forward some specific recommendations against the patent license problem in the technical standards.

Key words: technical standards; process of patent license; patent license problems; standard life cycle