Published: 1/23/17Publication: Lexology"Ten years after the European Commission opened an investigation into Qualcomm's royalties for 3G essential patents, and 8 years after it closed that investigation without any finding of infringement, the US FTC last week week (January 2017) brought a new complaint against the chipset manufacturer's patent licensing practices. In the meantime, Qualcomm [...]

Published: 1/19/17Publication: Essential Patent Blog"The Korea Fair Trade Commission (“KFTC”) recently issued a press release stating its intent to issue a written decision that will impose an $865 Million sanctions and a corrective order against Qualcomm for abuse in licensing standard essential patents (“SEPs”) in the mobile communications industry.  Specifically, on [...]

Published: 1/19/17Publication: Law360"On Jan. 13, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division published an update to the 1995 Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. This update is intended to “provide guidance to the public and the business community about the agencies’ enforcement [...]

Published: 1/17/17Publication: Inside Sources""The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday that it filed suitagainst chip maker Qualcomm over alleged antitrust violations related to monopoly power used against cell phone manufacturers and competitors for its baseband processors."" - [READ MORE]Read More

Published: 1/17/17Publication: Mondaq"Updating policies that had been on the books for more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on Jan. 12, 2017, issued new Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property that replace guidelines issued by the same agencies in April 1995. Such guidelines state the antitrust [...]

Published: 1/17/17Publication: Wall Street Journal"The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sued Qualcomm Inc., alleging the chip maker engaged in unlawful tactics to maintain its monopoly on a semiconductor device used in cellphones. The FTC, in a suit filed in a California federal court, alleged that Qualcomm used its position as the dominant provider [...]

Published: 1/17/17Publication: IAM"After launching a series of standard-essential patent (SEP) suits against T-Mobile USA in the Eastern District of Texas last year, Huawei now finds itself under attack on multiple fronts from the US company’s suppliers. Nokia’s Solutions & Networks unit (NSN) has followed up its two July countersuits by [...]

Published: 1/16/17Publication: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP"The European Commission has launched a consultation to gather views on building a European “data economy”. It comes as the Commission sets out its own plans for creating a single market for data in the EU. The Commission sees the free flow of data as [...]

Published: 1/16/17Publication: Comparative Patent Remedies"Last month the European Commission published a study, prepared by Pierre Régibeau, Raphaël De Coninck, and Hanz Zengler of Charlees River Associates (CRA) titled Transparency, Predictability, and Efficiency of SSO-based Standardization and SEP Licensing:  A Report for the European Commission, available here.  (Hat tip to Jorge Contreras for [...]