Published: June 8, 2017 Publication: IP Kat “Jet lag is a wonderful thing. It means you can catch up on your neglected judgment reading in the hope that at least one of them will lull you asleep. Well, Mr Justice Birss, you failed jet-lag sufferers and insomniacs everywhere. Yesterday morning's second instalment [...]
Published: June 8, 2017 Publication: Out-law “Patent law specialist Deborah Bould of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said the ruling was "globally ground-breaking" and provided "exciting new case law" which has the potential to shape how other businesses approach negotiations over the licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) as well as [...]
Published: June 7, 2017 Publication: Lexology “Mr Justice Birss has once again broken new legal ground by granting what he has termed a ‘FRAND injunction in Unwired Planet v Huawei. As a reminder, in April Mr Justice Birss handed down the first UK court decision determining a FRAND royalty rate (see [...]
Published: June 5, 2017 Publication: FOSS Patents “Two months after asking the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to dismiss the FTC's antitrust complaint, and three weeks after the FTC argued (with support from Intel, Samsung and others) that its complaint met the requirements so the case can proceed, Qualcomm replied on Friday [...]
Published: June 2, 2017 Publication: Bloomberg “Honeywell International Inc. was targeted by an antitrust complaint from Arkema SA, which alleges the U.S. company prevents fair competition for the only car-coolant chemical that currently meets new European Union standards on greenhouse-gas emissions. Arkema filed the complaint with the EU’s antitrust authority seeking a [...]
Published: June 2, 2017 Publication: IPWatchdog “On Friday, May 26th, Canadian telecommunications company BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) announced that it had reached an agreement with San Diego, CA-based semiconductor designer Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) to resolve arbitration proceedings over tech royalty payments made between the companies. Terms of the agreement involve Qualcomm paying BlackBerry [...]
Published: May 31, 2017 Publication: Reddie & Grose “The long-awaited ‘non-technical’ decision of Justice Birss was published in early April 2017 in respect of the competition law and FRAND related aspects in the dispute between Unwired Planet and Huawei in the UK Courts (the decision [2017 EWHC 711] is available on BAILII’s [...]
Published: May 26, 2017 Publication: The Register “Qualcomm's own shareholders have added to the barrage of lawsuits being fired at the mobile chip giant. The latest salvo puts the company's management in the crosshairs - blaming it for hardball tactics which subsequently attracted antitrust suits. In January, the FTC filed a [...]
Published: May 26, 2017 Publication: FierceWireless “An arbitration panel ruled last month that BlackBerry had overpaid Qualcomm in royalty payments from 2010 to 2015 under terms of a licensing deal. Qualcomm was ordered to pay the Canadian company roughly $815 million plus attorneys’ fees and interest. “Following a joint stipulation by the [...]
Published: May 24, 2017 Publication: PBS NewsHour “Amid headlines Monday about President Donald Trump’s trip through the Middle East, and the deep budget cuts he had proposed back home, the U.S. Supreme Court issued something of a landmark ruling on patent infringement lawsuits. In a unanimous decision, the justices said patent [...]