Published: 3/17/17Publication: Reuters"Makan Delrahim, a veteran lobbyist on President Donald Trump's transition team, is expected to be nominated to head the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, two sources familiar with the vetting process told Reuters on Friday." -- [READ MORE]Read More
Published: 3/16/17Publication: IP Finance"With the IEEE having updated its patent policy in 2015, some standard essential patent (SEP) owners raised concerns about the economic effectiveness of its move. While it is still too early to tell what economic impact their updated patent policy will have, it is worth paying attention [...]
Published: 3/13/17Publication: Metropolitan Corporate Counsel"And then there were two. With the departure of Commissioner Edith Ramirez, only two commissioners (of a potential five) will remain at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). One is a Republican, Acting Chairperson Maureen Ohlhausen, and one is a Democrat, Commissioner Terrell McSweeny. Often their [...]
Technical standardization can involve the integration of hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of technologies, many of which are protected by patents. Such “standard essential patents” (SEPs) are subject to a variety of unique contract and competition law issues and considerations. To support access to and use of standards, [...]
Published: 3/1/17 Publication: IPlytics GmbH Technical standardization can involve the integration of hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of technologies, many of which are protected by patents. Such “standard essential patents” (SEPs) are subject to a variety of unique contract and competition law issues and considerations. To support access [...]
Published: 2/22/17Publication: Law360“A Texas magistrate judge on Wednesday recommended a federal court deny T-Mobile's bid to toss Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s suit for declaratory judgment on whether its license on patented 4G technology was fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory, finding the court had subject-matter jurisdiction over the case. The Chinese telecom supplier’s action, filed [...]
Published: 2/22/17Publication: The Weekly Standard“An aggressive monopolist doesn't just content itself with monopoly profits in the market it controls; where possible, it leverages that advantage to gain market power in additional markets as well, where regulators may be less vigilant and the players in the target market are vulnerable. Nowhere [...]
Published: 2/22/17Publication: Southeast Texas Record“A magistrate judge has given the go-ahead for two patent-infringement lawsuits against BlackBerry. The decision came after PanOptis Patent Management LLC and Optis Cellular Technology LLC filed two complaints against the cellphone company in January 2016. They claimed that BlackBerry infringed on eight wireless communications and mobile phone [...]
Published: 2/16/17Publication: The Recorder“A new front in the smartphone wars formally opened Tuesday as TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd. and Ericsson Inc. kicked off a bench trial over fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) licensing for 4G LTE technology. Shenzhen, China-based TCL is asking U.S. District Judge James Selna of Santa [...]
Published: 2/16/17Publication: The Jackson Sun"As the Obama Administration drew to a close, a divided Federal Trade Commission brought suit in U.S. district court against a company named Qualcomm, a manufacturer of chipsets which holds patents essential to the function of mobile phones and other consumer products. The agency’s assertion the [...]