Published: April 17, 2018 Publisher: World Trademark Review By their very nature, IP rights are monopolistic. Patent laws in particular, which seek to encourage innovation by granting limited monopolies over inventions, epitomize this aspect of IP rights. Since a patentee is statutorily empowered to prevent others from infringing its right [...]
Published: April 16, 2018 Publisher: Law.com No matter what the Federal Circuit or the new head of DOJ antitrust might have said, standard-essential patents and injunctions don’t mix. That’s the takeaway from U.S. District Judge William Orrick III’s order on April 13 in Samsung Electronics Co. and Huawei Technologies Co.’s worldwide [...]
Published: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Law 360 Commissioner Terrell McSweeny of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said it would be wrong for enforcers not to focus on patent holders in the standard-setting process, offering a bright contrast to recent policy pronouncements made by U.S. Department of Justice leadership. McSweeny [...]
Published: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Lexology In the subsequent months there have been some significant developments. The Commission’s Communication has been published (here, analysed in an article we wrote for the CIPA Journal here), although there was a notable absence of any specific reference to use-based or chipset licensing. The Nokia-backed [...]
Published: March 5, 2018 Publisher: World Intellectual Property Review More than 50 European signatories have joined an initiative to produce an industry-wide opinion on the best licensing practices for standard-essential patents (SEPs). Read More.
Published: February 20, 2018 Publisher: City A.M. The integration of connectivity into vehicles is disrupting the automotive industry. This disruption may lead to a five letter acronym (FRAND - Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) having a major impact on how both the automotive and mobile telecoms industries have traditionally done business. [...]
By Konstantinos Karachalios IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. With more than 423,000 members, IEEE is a trusted voice for engineering, computing, and technology information around the globe. The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), which oversees IEEE standards development, is [...]
Published: February 7, 2018 Publisher: Bloomberg Law The Internet of Things, or IoT, has the characteristics to become the next patent war zone as new standards are adopted and the convergence of disparate technologies leads to new disputes. This convergence of technologies will likely result in an increase in litigation [...]
Published: February 6, 2018 Publisher: World IP Review Samsung Electronics has asked a US court to prevent the enforcement of a Chinese injunction, issued last month, which ordered the company to cease making and selling products that infringe two of competitor Huawei Technologies’ patents. Read more.
Published: January 26, 2018 Publisher: IAM The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust division has placed standards setting organisations (SSO) firmly in its crosshairs. In a series of comments at an antitrust event held by the Heritage Foundation earlier this week in Washington DC, Andrew Finch, principal deputy assistant attorney general [...]