(WASHINGTON, DC) April 15, 2021- Today, ACT | The App Association released a statement regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) restoration of its 2015 Business Review Letter supporting key clarifications on standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing issues made by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA): “The App Association welcomes the DOJ [...]
FTC v. Qualcomm and Intellectual Property Law: Perspectives by the 2018-2019 Innovators Network Fellows
On July 24, 2019, ACT | The App Association filed a Motion For Leave To File Brief of ACT | The App Association As Amicus Curiae In Opposition For Partial Stay of Injunction for Stay of Appeal
On July 24, 2019, ACT | The App Association filed a Brief Of Amicus Curiae In Opposition to Qualcomm’s Motion for Partial Stay Pending Appeal
Published: December 21, 2017 On December 21, 2017, Judge James Selna of the Central District of California issued a highly anticipated decision in the TCL Communications v. Ericsson case, which addresses the ambiguity surrounding the calculation of fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalty rates for standard-essential patents (SEPs). Despite several [...]
On June 7, 2017, Judge Birss of the United Kingdom High Court of Justice (the Court) enforced its injunction against Huawei. Initially, the Court imposed the injunction because it ruled that Huawei did not seek a license for Unwired Planet’s standard essential patents under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. [...]
Published: 4/5/17 In 2014, Unwired Planet asserted infringement claims against Google, Samsung, and Huawei over six UK patents that Unwired Planet obtained from Ericsson (note: Google and Samsung since settled, leaving only Huawei to fight the case). The patent portfolio at issue concerns five patents essential to the 2G, 3G, [...]
Published: 4/13/16In this case, the court denied InterDigital’s motion to dismiss a Microsoft complaint alleging that InterDigital monopolized markets for SEPs that InterDigital owns. Microsoft alleged that InterDigital fraudulently induced the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (“ETSI”) to incorporate certain InterDigital patents into its standards by committing to license those patents [...]
Published: 12/8/15 This case addressed the damages calculation method for a SEP reading on Wi-Fi technology. The district court based its reasonable royalty determination on licensing negotiations between the parties, using the rates proffered by the parties during negotiations as the lower and upper bounds for a reasonable royalty. On [...]
Published: 11/27/15Case No. 2 O 106/14, Regional Court of Mannheim (2015) Case No. 6 U 220/15, Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe (pending) In late 2015, the Regional Court of Mannheim granted Saint Lawrence Communications’ (“SLC”) motion to enjoin Deutsche Telekom and HTC from selling in Germany mobile phones that infringe [...]