Published: September 4, 2017 Publisher: Reuters “A South Korean court on Monday rejected Qualcomm Inc’s request to suspend an order by the country’s antitrust agency to take corrective action on the way it licenses patents. In December, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) fined Qualcomm 1.03 trillion won ($912.34 million) for [...]
Published: September 1, 2017 Publisher: Lexology “On 19 May 2017 Apple issued a major claim against Qualcomm in the English Court. This is part of a widely reported global dispute between the two giants. The English action includes an Article 102 abuse of dominance claim as well as a FRAND licensing [...]
Published: August 30, 2017 Publisher: Foss Patents “The European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition--the 28-nation bloc's top antitrust agency--has been criticized on various occasions (on which it went after U.S. tech companies) that it focused more on the strategic interests of competitors of their investigation targets than on consumer harm, which is [...]
Published: August 2017 By: Karl Heinz Rosenbrock Karl Rosenbrock is the former Director-General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (“ETSI”). He writes, "I have followed with interest the various discussions and disputes regarding the application of the ETSI IPR Policy. The ETSI IPR Policy was drafted, debated and finalized during my [...]
This blog is cross posted from the Fair Standards Alliance. The blog was originally published on August 17th, and may be viewed here. As explained in our Position Paper of 24 June 2016, today’s increasingly connected world demands cooperation and interoperation among many different products. To ensure widespread adoption of common standardized [...]
On June 7, 2017, Judge Birss of the United Kingdom High Court of Justice (the Court) enforced its injunction against Huawei. Initially, the Court imposed the injunction because it ruled that Huawei did not seek a license for Unwired Planet’s standard essential patents under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. [...]
On August 11, ACT | The App Association submitted comments to the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) to argue that a stay of KFTC's Corrective Order on Qualcomm's licensing practices would cause irreparable public harm to the public interest. To view the full submission, please click here.
Published: August 9, 2017 Publication: IP Watchdog “On Tuesday, August 8th, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that it was opening up an investigation on claims that Cupertino, CA-based consumer electronics behemoth Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is infringing upon patented technologies, specifically baseband processor modems, in its mobile electronic devices. [...]
Published: August 8, 2017 Publication: Forbes “The United States International Trade Commission said on Tuesday that it's agreed to start an investigation into Qualcomm's claims that Apple has violated its patents in devices like the iPhone 7. The federal trade agency can bar products from entering the US. In early July, [...]
Published: August 8, 2017 Publication: Lexology “Standard-essential patents (SEPs) are already today subject of many legal disputes, mainly in the area of telecommunication. Numerous companies continually try to exploit the value of its SEPs, which is artificially gained through the implementation in a standard, by requesting unfair, unreasonable or discriminatory [...]