Published: May 18, 2018 Publisher: FOSS Patents Given the importance of this subject, I'll now republish an open letter that 77 former government officials and professors (of law, economics, and business) have sent Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim in order to remind him of long-standing and consistent U.S. policies on [...]
Published: May 17, 2018 Publisher: Competition Policy International (CPI) On May 17, 2018, an open letter was addressed to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim by 77 former government enforcement officials and academics, who do not believe his recent speeches on patents and patent holdup "are consistent with the broad bipartisan [...]
Published: May 17, 2018 Letter Link: here Seventy-seven former government enforcement officials and professors of law, economics, and business penned a letter to Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim to express concern with his recent speeches on standard essential patents. The letter outlines eight key issues that illustrate [...]
Published: April 30, 2018 Publisher: Reuters Qualcomm Inc. has broadened its use of a lower-cost licensing model for the next generation of mobile data networks, a move that could help in contentious talks with two customers including iPhone maker Apple Inc., the wireless tech company's patent licensing chief said on [...]
Published: April 26, 2018 Publisher: Lexology Price differentiation is a topical issue. The increasing use of pricing algorithms offers the potential for companies to engage in ‘personalized’ pricing on a mass scale, offering different prices to different consumers based on an algorithmic assessment of the highest price each individual is [...]
Published: April 25, 2018 Publisher: IAM The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest technical professional organization, with hundreds of thousands of members. As a US-based standard-setting organization (SSO), the IEEE has successfully standardized thousands of fundamental technologies, including critical communications standards such as Wi-Fi and ethernet. [...]
Published: April 23, 2018 Publisher: IP Pro Patents Huawei and ZTE’s bid to dismiss Conversant’s patent infringement claims has been rejected by the English High Court. The Chinese companies had argued that the English court was not the right jurisdiction for the patent infringement claim, as the relief sought is [...]
Published: April 20, 2018 Publisher: JDSUPRA The findings from the recent Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf decision Mobiles Kommunikations system have established a new framework that should be followed when courts are benchmarking standard-essential patents (SEP) license offers. The court has commented on which requirements are to be placed on [...]
Published: April 20, 2018 Publisher: WIPR Huawei’s and ZTE’s attempt to escape a patent dispute with a licensing company by questioning the jurisdictional legitimacy of the English courts has been thwarted. Mr. Justice Henry Carr delivered the decision at the English High Court on Monday, April 16. Conversant Wireless Licensing [...]
Published: April 18, 2018 Publisher: IPKat Does the English Court have jurisdiction to grant relief in the form of a global FRAND license in relation to a claim for infringement of UK patents, where UK sales account for only 1% or less of worldwide sales on which royalties are claimed? [...]