Published: 4/10/17Publication: CNET"Qualcomm's put on the boxing gloves in a patent spat with Apple. The chipmaker on Monday, in a 134-page redacted filing, responded to an Apple lawsuit about patent licensing and made some counterclaims of its own, including breach of contract. It also asked for an unspecified amount in damages. "Over [...]
Published: 4/10/17Publication: Patently-O"In the latest decision by the UK High Court of Justice (Patents) in Unwired Planet v. Huawei [2017] Mister Justice Colin Birss has issued a detailed and illuminating opinion regarding the assessment of royalties on standards-essential patents (SEPs) that are subject to FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing commitments. Among the [...]
Published: 4/10/15Publication: FOSS PatentsYesterday's announcement that Google has agreed to make its LTE (4G) standard-essential patents, all or most of which previously belonged to Motorola, available through Via Licensing's LTE patent pool, is for all intents and purposes more meaningful than most settlements of patent disputes between industry players are. [...]
Published: 4/9/15Publication: FOSS PatentsMore than 4½ years after Microsoft sued Motorola for not renewing a license agreement (a renewal that would likely have been costly after Motorola stopped making Windows devices), Motorola still hasn't paid Microsoft a dime in patent royalties on its Android devices, and for now there's no [...]
Published: 4/9/15Publication: CNetThe strife between Microsoft and Google over Motorola Mobility patents is far from resolved. Google on Wednesday asked the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside a patent rate established by a lower judge in its ongoing royalties case against Microsoft, according to Reuters, which obtained a [...]
Published: 4/8/16Publication: LexologyIn three decisions dated 19 January 2016 the Dusseldorf Regional Court held for infringement of the German parts of the European patents EP 1 230 818, EP 2 485 514 and EP 2 119 287 owned by the plaintiff Unwired Planet (in the following: the Patents) and ordered [...]
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Published: 4/7/17Publication: IAM"On Wednesday, the High Court sitting in London handed down the UK’s first-ever decisionin a case relating to the licensing of standard essential patents on a FRAND basis. It came down on the side of licensor Unwired Planet in its dispute with Huawei, and provided a long, very detailed [...]
Published: 4/7/16Publication: LexologyOn March 31, 2016, the Competition Bureau (Bureau) released revised Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines (IPEGs). These IPEGs reflect incremental changes to the draft version released for consultation last year. Most notably the new IPEGs provide further guidance on (i) pharmaceutical patent litigation settlements, (ii) product switching (also known as “product hopping”), (iii) [...]
Published: 4/6/17Publication: Law360"HTC America Inc. filed a FRAND suit in Washington federal court on Thursday alleging Ericsson Inc. refuses to accept its fair and reasonable royalty rate calculations to license standard-essential patents related to cellular and wireless networks, saying Ericsson is attempting to overcharge it for soon-to-be-obsolete technology. Ericsson holds standards-essential [...]