Published: June 12, 2017 Publication: FOSS Patents More than five years ago, Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility was delayed significantly by merger reviews on both sides of the Atlantic and U.S. regulatory approval was subject to certain promises related to patent enforcement. At the time, Motorola Mobility (the acquisition target) was aggressively [...]
Published: June 12, 2017 Publication: IAM “Back in April in the High Court in London, Justice Colin Birss issued the UK’s first-ever FRAND/SEP-related decision in the Unwired Planet v Huawei case. The detailed reasoning that Birss provided in his judgment, as well as the FRAND rates that he set out and his [...]
Published: June 8, 2017 Publication: IP Kat “Jet lag is a wonderful thing. It means you can catch up on your neglected judgment reading in the hope that at least one of them will lull you asleep. Well, Mr Justice Birss, you failed jet-lag sufferers and insomniacs everywhere. Yesterday morning's second instalment [...]
Published: June 8, 2017 Publication: Out-law “Patent law specialist Deborah Bould of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said the ruling was "globally ground-breaking" and provided "exciting new case law" which has the potential to shape how other businesses approach negotiations over the licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) as well as [...]
Published: June 7, 2017 Publication: Lexology “Mr Justice Birss has once again broken new legal ground by granting what he has termed a ‘FRAND injunction in Unwired Planet v Huawei. As a reminder, in April Mr Justice Birss handed down the first UK court decision determining a FRAND royalty rate (see [...]
Published: June 5, 2017 Publication: FOSS Patents “Two months after asking the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to dismiss the FTC's antitrust complaint, and three weeks after the FTC argued (with support from Intel, Samsung and others) that its complaint met the requirements so the case can proceed, Qualcomm replied on Friday [...]
The following is a guest blog written by Timothy Muris, a Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP. The smartphone is a testament to the creative minds and herculean cooperation that transformed our personal and professional lives. Yet more than [...]
Published: May 4, 2017 Publication: American Enterprise Institute (Tim Muris is a Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and was chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 2001 to 2004. He published a report with the American [...]
Published: June 2, 2017 Publication: Bloomberg “Honeywell International Inc. was targeted by an antitrust complaint from Arkema SA, which alleges the U.S. company prevents fair competition for the only car-coolant chemical that currently meets new European Union standards on greenhouse-gas emissions. Arkema filed the complaint with the EU’s antitrust authority seeking a [...]
Published: June 2, 2017 Publication: IPWatchdog “On Friday, May 26th, Canadian telecommunications company BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) announced that it had reached an agreement with San Diego, CA-based semiconductor designer Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) to resolve arbitration proceedings over tech royalty payments made between the companies. Terms of the agreement involve Qualcomm paying BlackBerry [...]