Published: 4/21/17Publication: Law360"Samsung, Intel and other companies urged President Donald Trump on Thursday to crack down on owners of standard-essential patents who don’t license them on fair terms, and to allow a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Qualcomm of doing that to proceed in court.The letter to the president signed by 15 companies and organizations, including [...]

Published: 4/21/17Publication: IP-Watch"A group of 15 US and foreign tech and automobile companies and organisations has sent a letter to the White House asking for support to reduce what they see as rising anti-competitive licensing practices involving standards essential patents (SEPs).    SEPs are patents included in technologies that have [...]

Published: 4/19/17Publication: IPKat"The AmeriKat loves prowling law firm press releases and journal articles right after a judgment is released.  The rush to get to publication can often result in unequivocal statements about what the judgment means.  As most lawyers know, it is a challenge to ever know what a judgment [...]

Published: 4/14/17Publication: IAM"Last week’s judgment from London’s High Court in Unwired Planet v Huawei has elicited a lot of interest from the patent licensing community in the US. Despite the fact that patent disputes between various players in the mobile sector have hardly been a rarity in recent years, there have been very few [...]

Published: 4/13/17Publication: IAM"It has been quite an eventful start to 2017 in the Chinese IP market, particularly in the field of licensing. We’ve seen a major patent pool introduce a new royalty rate structure aimed at enticing more developing-market implementers to get involved, the first foreign NPE officially enter China through a joint venture [...]

Published: 3/31/17Publication: Lexology"On 23 March 2017, the Antimonopoly Commission of China’s State Council (“AMC”) published the long-expected draft Guidelines on Prohibition of Abuses of Intellectual Property Rights (“draft IPR Guidelines”) for public comments. The draft IPR Guidelines aim to provide guidance on the enforcement of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) by the Chinese [...]

Published: 3/30/17Publication: IAM"A judge has revealed that there are more than 20 standards essential patent (SEP) disputes pending before the Beijing IP Court. The court’s vice president Chen Jinchuan confirmed the figure at a press conference last Wednesday at which he shared key developments from the venue’s second full year of existence. [...]

Published: 3/29/17Publication: Courthouse News Service"A federal judge advanced an antitrust case involving technology companies involved in internet connectivity and the compression of video files, finding their competitor offered sufficient evidence they lied to regulatory agencies about their patent intentions." - [READ MORE]Read More

Published: 3/28/17Publication: ZDNet"LG Electronics has filed a lawsuit against US smartphone maker BLU for alleged patent infringement. The South Korean tech giant said BLU infringed five of its LTE standard patents. Since last year, it sent notices informing BLU of its infringement without reply, the company said. LG filed the [...]

Published: 3/28/17Publication: Tech Portal"The Commission’s report mentions that Samsung tried supplying its own Exynos processors to other hardware makers but Qualcomm blocked them from doing so. The latter abused the power of its standard-essential patent, including technical standards such as Wi-Fi or 4G and licensed under fair terms, to prevent Samsung from selling [...]