This was originally published on the ACT | The App Association blog, here. If you can have access to a patented technology but you aren’t allowed to licence it, that either means the licensor is offering it up for free, in the way open source software developers offer up their [...]
Published: November 2017 By: Karl Heinz Rosenbrock The ETSI IPR Policy maintains this balance by requiring every ETSI member to use reasonable endeavours to inform ETSI of ESSENTIAL IPRs in a timely fashion. Once an Essential IPR is identified, the IPR owner is asked to make an irrevocable undertaking in writing that [...]
Published: November 8, 2017 Publisher: Financial Express "The next iPhone may well be the first one without a Qualcomm chip, given the bruising battle between Apple and Qualcomm over the latter’s royalties. While doing that is tricky given how Qualcomm technology drove most improvements in wireless technology —the 3G and [...]
Published: November 8, 2017 Publisher: IPPro Patents "IP Europe has claimed that, if implemented, a ‘licence to all’ system for standard essential patents (SEPs) in Europe could be a “licence to kill” for innovation in Europe. The research and development organisation, whose corporate members include Airbus, Ericsson, Nokia and Orange, claimed that [...]
Published: November 8, 2017 Publisher: IAM "You just don’t get injunctions in cases relating to standard essential patents in the US, do you? Absolutely not, in almost all circumstances. However, during a presentation at last week’s IPBC Asia in Tokyo, Vinson & Elkins partner John Fuisz drew delegates’ attention to a recent initial determination [...]
Published: November 7, 2017 Publisher: ACT | The App Association In a new blog post, IP Europe gave its favorite false narrative a new coat of paint by suggesting that the bedrock FRAND requirement of “license for all” equates to some kind of “license to kill.” It’s a clever turn-of-phrase designed to appeal to [...]
This blog was originally posted on ACT | The App Association's website. In a new blog post, IP Europe gave its favorite false narrative a new coat of paint by suggesting that the bedrock FRAND requirement of “license for all” equates to some kind of “license to kill.” It’s a [...]
Published: November 6, 2017 By: Karl Heinz Rosenbrock As the former Director-General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Mr. Rosenbrock has followed with interest the various discussions and disputes regarding the application of the ETSI IPR Policy. The ETSI IPR Policy was drafted, debated and finalized during his tenure, and [...]
Published: November 6, 2017 Publisher: IAM "A fundamental change to SEP licensing related to mobile communications technology is on the verge of being proposed by the European Commission. According to IP Europe – a coalition of IP intensive, R&D companies including Orange, Ericsson and Nokia – plans being championed by the [...]
Published: November 6, 2017 Publisher: Lexology "On April 20 2017 the Beijing High People's Court issued the newly revised Guidelines for Patent Infringement Determination in Chinese, English and Japanese. The guidelines include sections on: determining the scope of protection of inventions and utility models; determining what constitutes invention and utility model infringement; [...]