Published: November 2, 2017 Publisher: Lexology "In his latest decision in the Unwired Planet v Huawei case, Mr Justice Birss has provided guidance on the nature and scope of remedies available to Standard Essential Patent (SEP) owners in the UK, including availability of a new type of injunction called a “FRAND injunction”. This decision [...]

Published: October 26, 2017 Publisher: IAM “A battle is waging inside the European Commission over the wording of a Communication due to be issued at the end of next month on transparency in SEP/FRAND licensing. The text is scheduled to include a list of what the Commission considers to be acceptable [...]

Published: October 25, 2017 Publisher: Lexology “In April this year we reported that the Commission had released a Roadmap towards a ‘Communication on Standard Essential Patents for a European digitalised economy’, intended to address some of the uncertainties in SEP licensing left unresolved following Huawei v ZTE (see e.g. here), and to drive progress for the EU-wide adoption [...]

Published: October 20, 2017 Publisher: IP Pro Patents “The App Association (ACT) and the Fair Standards Alliance have penned a letter to European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENLEC) lambasting a recently created draft project plan for a code of conduct on licensing standard-essential patents (SEPs) for 5G [...]

Published: October 19, 2017 Publisher: IP Pro Patents “The App Association (ACT) has called on the European Commission to prohibit any form of use-based pricing of technology essential to the internet of things. The commission is set to issue guidance on how standard-essential patents should be licensed to help the [...]

Published: October 19, 2017 Publisher: World IP Review “A bitter row over the licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) in the internet of things (IoT) is continuing ahead of expected guidance from the European Commission. Trade body the App Association is worried that the commission may extend use-based pricing—a practice currently used [...]

Published: October 16, 2017 Publisher: IAM “A series of Beijing lawsuits first reported by Bloomberg on Friday are just the latest salvos in the increasingly bitter global patent war between Qualcomm and Apple. Announcing the new suits to the press, Qualcomm declared explicitly that it will seek an injunction in [...]

Published: October 13, 2017 Publisher: Law360 “For the second time in four years, the U.S. International Trade Commission has been asked to exclude products from import into the United States based on patents that are allegedly essential to the practice of a standard, so called standard-essential patents. In the first instance, [...]

Published: October 6, 2017 Publisher: Lexology “Chinese firm Guangzhou Digital Rise Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Digital Rise") has sued Skyworth, Samsung and Hisense (in that order) for patent infringement. This SEP dispute is the first for China's television industry, and its fallout could have a major impact on the [...]