Published: 5/3/16Publication: LexologyOn 19 April 2016 the European Commission published its Communication ‘ICT Standardisation Priorities for the Digital Single Market‘...[READ MORE]Read More

Published: 5/2/17Publication: ET Telecom"Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson said has become more challenging to deal with companies over fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms and conditions to license its standard essential patents (SEPs) around legacy technologies like 2G and 3G among others, following the mushrooming of handset companies across the globe." -- [READ [...]

Published: 5/2/16Publication: LexologyIn its Huawei v. ZTE decision of July 16, 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) set out a new framework under which the owner of a standard essential patent (SEP) can seek injunctive relief against an infringer without abusing a dominant position under Art. 102 TFEU. To [...]

Published: 4/12/17Publication: IPKat"It has been a busy couple of weeks for standard essential patents (SEPs).  Last week, we had the Unwired Planet v Huawei decision on FRAND (see post by the Amerikat here), and now we have the European Commission's roadmap on SEPs.  With thanks to Katfriend Colm Ahern (Elzaburu, Madrid) who brings us up to [...]

Published: 4/12/17Publication: Lexology"The lengthy, long-awaited judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei Technologies provides guidance on the determination of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalty rates for standard-essential patents on a worldwide basis. This report sets out a summary of the key conclusions." -- [READ MORE]Read More

Published: 4/12/17Publication: Lexology"In this long awaited decision (Unwired Planet v Huawei 2017 EWHC 711 (Pat)), the question of what is a “Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory” (FRAND) licence to work a Standards Essential Patent (SEP) has been addressed for the first time by a judge in Europe. The English High Court held [...]

Published: 4/12/16Publication: LexologyIn its decision dated 31 March 2016, docket number 4a O 73/14, the Düsseldorf Regional Court granted Saint Lawrence Communications (“SLC”) an injunction against Vodafone due to offering/selling of smartphones on the ground of the German part of the European Patent EP 1 125 276 found to be [...]

Published: 4/11/17Publication: Law360" Qualcomm slammed Apple with a slew of counterclaims in California federal court on Monday, alleging the iPhone maker is lowballing license terms for Qualcomm’s standard essential patent technology, breaching cooperation agreements and making billions of dollars off of other companies’ innovations." -- [READ MORE]Read More

Published: 4/11/17Publication: Lexology"In the aftermath of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (the “CJEU”) decision in Huawei Technologies v ZTE, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf has ruled on the obligations of a standard essential patent (“SEP”) owner, in the telecommunication sector (GPRS and UMTS standard), before seeking an [...]

Published: 4/10/17Publication: Lexology"The Beijing IP Court recently handed down a landmark decision concerning infringement of a standard essential patent (SEP) in the Iwncomm v. Sony case. The court found that Sony had infringed a SEP relating to a national standard. The court ordered a permanent injunction, along with damages of close to [...]