Published: 5/8/17Publication: IPKat"With the French elections preoccupying Europe, readers may have understandably forgotten about Monday's deadline to respond to the incredibly short-lived Commission consultation on the roadmap for Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) in Europe.  An industry group who did not forget, ACT | The App Association, wrote to the IPKat [...]

Published: 5/8/15Publication: ZDNetCommunications company Ericsson has opened a new legal front in its ongoing lawsuits with Apple. Ericsson has filed lawsuits against Apple in Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands, alleging that the iPhone maker is violating patents it holds related to wireless communications technology. The lawsuits, which were filed [...]

Published: 5/6/16Publication: IAMRichard Lloyd of IAM: "In some ways not much has changed since the IEEE Standard Association’s (IEEE SA) new patent policy came into effect in March last year. There remains a group of tech companies led by Qualcomm, Ericsson and Nokia who refuse to license their standard essential patents (SEPs) [...]

Published: 5/5/17Publication: ET Telecom“The next Generation Mobile Networking technology popularly known as 5G (5th Generation New Radio (5G) is expected to provide more bandwidth with speed in gigabits while allowing easier connectivity in wireless networking and likely to be commercially available by 2020. The 5G technology is expected to be [...]

Published: 5/5/15Publication: ZDNetSouth Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has internally deemed Qualcomm's patent licensing practices for smartphone-making clients and chip competitors to be an abuse of standard essential patents (SEP), an abuse of its dominant position, and against fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms, people with knowledge of the matter [...]

Published: 5/4/17Publication: Law360"America fashions itself as a cradle of innovation. We encourage entrepreneurs and try to provide robust intellectual property protection to encourage inventions and innovations. American inventions and inventors impact the world over, however. Indeed, we live in an interconnected world. Our devices are connected." -- [READ MORE]Read More

Published: 5/4/17Publication: IP Whiteboard“The UK High Court’s 150+ page epic on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licence terms in Unwired Planet v Huawei has stirred up a lot of commentary in the tech nerd space and the international patent community (across which there is probably a fair bit of overlap). [...]

Published: 5/4/16Publication: Spicy IPIn this post, Swati continues her analysis of the recent decision of the Delhi High Court in Telefonaktiebolaget lm Ericsson v Competition Commission of India...[READ MORE]Read More

Published: 5/3/17Publication: Mondaq“Unwired Planet is a non-practicing entity (NPE) whose business is to licence its patents to companies who make or use telecommunications equipment. Unwired Planet holds a worldwide portfolio of patents, including many that are declared essential to certain wireless telecommunications standards such as 2G, 3G and 4G LTE.” [...]

Published: 5/3/17Publication: IAM"As well as driver assistance, software can integrate a smartphone with a car’s infotainment system, such as Apple’s CarPlay, Google’s Android Auto or the Car Connectivity Consortium’s MirrorLink.  The next generation of driver assistance will include so-called ‘connected cars’, which could remove a driver from direct involvement in [...]