Published: 12/12/13In a preliminary opinion directing the opening of an investigation, the Competition Commission of India addressed allegations that Ericsson sought royalties for its FRAND-encumbered SEPs at levels that breached its FRAND commitments. The Commission addressed allegations that the royalties were discriminatory and that they were set on the basis [...]
Published: 12/11/08This decision denied a motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s breach of contract and antitrust claims against Motorola based on the claim that Motorola refused to negotiate FRAND licenses in good faith. The court rejected Motorola’s claim that it lacks monopoly power based on its SEPs, holding that the promulgation [...]
Published: 9/28/12In this decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s holding that enjoined a holder of FRAND-encumbered SEPs from enforcing a patent injunction obtained in Germany against a potential licensee. The court addressed a FRAND commitment made to the International Telecommunications Union, under [...]
Published: 12/9/16Publication: LimeGreen IP News"The case reported is the first French FRAND-case initiated after the Huawei/ZTE ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) on 16 July 2015 (Case C-170/13). The key discussion was not patent infringement but rather unfair competition due to the sending of letters [...]
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Published: 12/9/12The Rambus case involved allegations of standard-setting deception rather than FRAND abuse. The European Commission’s decision in Rambus is nevertheless relevant to the FRAND debate because of its analysis of the appropriate royalty base on which a SEP holder may impose a royalty. In the Commission’s market testing of [...]
Published: 12/9/12The Rambus case involved allegations of standard-setting deception rather than FRAND abuse. The European Commission’s decision in Rambus is nevertheless relevant to the FRAND debate because of its analysis of the appropriate royalty base on which a SEP holder may impose a royalty. In the Commission’s market testing of [...]
Published: 8/30/12LaserDynamics accused Quanta, a laptop computer manufacturer, of infringing a patent that read on a method for identifying the type of disc inserted into an optical drive. A jury found for LaserDynamics, who claimed that a reasonable royalty should be 2% of the price of the entire notebook computer [...]
Published: 12/8/15Publication: Economic Times TelecomInnovation, technology and entrepreneurship have of late emerged as key objectives for the Modi Government. Almost every foreign trip of the Prime Minister has been a platform to strongly promote the ‘Digital India’ project, making it a political and economic priority for India’s incumbent government. It [...]