Published: 1/3/13 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission settled charges that Google’s Motorola Mobility Division violated the Federal Trade Commission Act by seeking injunctions and exclusion orders against willing licensees of its FRAND-encumbered SEPs. The settlement provides for the establishment of a dispute resolution mechanism to adjudicate FRAND rates and bars [...]
Published: 1/8/13 No available links. The Summary is based on unofficial English translations. In this case, the Tokyo High Court established a FRAND royalty for patents essential to the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (“UMTS”) standard. The court determined that the aggregate royalty stack for licenses to UMTS SEPs should not [...]
Published: 1/8/13 No available links. Summaries are based on unofficial English translations. In this decision, a Chinese appellate court determined the FRAND royalty for FRAND-encumbered SEPs relating to various telephony standards. The court determined that the SEP holder breached its FRAND commitments by seeking excessive royalties. The court affirmed a [...]
Published: 1/8/13 In this joint statement, the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and the Patent and Trademark Office addressed the benefits of collaborative standards development through standards organizations and the risks to competition associated with patent hold-up, which may occur after standardization. According to the statement, “when a standard incorporates [...]
Published: 12/19/12In these briefs, the IEEE, a leading standard setting organization in the computing and networking industries, explains the process through which it develops industry standards and seeks FRAND commitments from standard-setting participants to “protect implementers of a standard against patent hold-up.” According to IEEE, hold-up is “the ability of [...]
Published: 12/19/12In these two briefs, the IEEE, a leading standard setting organization in the computing and networking industries, explains the process through which it develops industry standards, including the process of seeking FRAND commitments from standard-setting participants. The IEEE then goes on to explain that it seeks FRAND commitments to [...]
Published: 12/12/16Publication: European Commission"In December 2016, the European Commission published two studies on standard essential patents (SEPs). A SEP protects technology that is essential to a standards such as those for 4G (LTE) and WiFi networks which rely on hundreds of patented technologies to work." - [READ MORE]Read More
Published: 12/12/16Publication: European Commission"This study provides unique statistical evidence on the importance of standard essential patents (SEPs) for key technologies in Europe. Based on a unique dataset, the report highlights trends at major standardisation bodies as well as the behaviours of SEP owners and information on their patent portfolio. Key [...]
Published: 12/12/16Publication: European Commission"In December 2016, the European Commission published a study assessing issues and solutions related to standard essential patents (SEPs) and the standardisation process. The analysis builds on a previous report on patents and standards (PDF, 580kB) prepared for the Commission and on the responses to a public consultation on patents and [...]
Published: 12/12/16Publication: National Law Review"On November 28, 2016, Baroness Neville Rolfe, the United KingdomMinister of State for Intellectual Property, announced that the U.K. would ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA), paving the way for the European Unified Patent Court (UPC). Commentators were generally surprised that the U.K, in the wake of [...]