Published: 2/16/17Publication: The Jackson Sun"As the Obama Administration drew to a close, a divided Federal Trade Commission brought suit in U.S. district court against a company named Qualcomm, a manufacturer of chipsets which holds patents essential to the function of mobile phones and other consumer products. The agency’s assertion the [...]
Published: 2/14/17Publication: IAM"Already embroiled in a standards licensing dispute with competitors Ericsson and Nokia, Huawei now faces battle on a new front after NPE PanOptis sued the Chinese company for alleged infringement of its standard-essential patents (SEPs). PanOptis and its affiliate Optis Wireless Technology LLC filed suit in the Eastern [...]
Published: 2/14/17Publication: Bloomberg"BlackBerry Ltd. filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nokia Oyj, demanding royalties on the Finnish company’s mobile network products that use an industrywide technology standard. Nokia’s products including its Flexi Multiradio base stations, radio network controllers and Liquid Radio software are using technology covered by as many as 11 patents, BlackBerry [...]
Published: 1/30/17Publication: Wireless Week"Standard essential patents have received a lot of attention in recent years – from industry participants such as Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung, who have been engaged in costly and heated global litigation related to the enforcement of such patents; to economists, who have devoted [...]
Published: 1/25/17Publication: Reuters"Apple Inc filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc in Beijing, alleging the chip supplier abused its clout in the chip industry and seeking 1 billion yuan ($145.32 million) in damages, Beijing's Intellectual Property Court said in a statement on Wednesday. Apple also filed a second lawsuit against Qualcomm [...]
Published: 1/24/17Publication: Lexology"More than 21 years ago, the US antitrust agencies issued guidance to the business community on two critical topics of antitrust enforcement: (1) the licensing of intellectual property rights1 and (2) international enforcement and agency cooperation.2 Published only one day apart, the twin guidelines have proven influential. Many [...]
Published: 1/24/17Publication: VentureBeat"Qualcomm reported a lower-than-expected 3.9 percent rise in quarterly revenue, at a time when the chipmaker is facing multiple legal challenges over its alleged “anticompetitive” tactics. The company’s shares were down 3.8 percent at $54.75 in aftermarket trading." - [READ MORE]Read More
Published: 1/24/17Publication: Reuters"The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday it will investigate a complaint by Nokia Technologies alleging that Apple Inc has imported smart phones, tablet computers and other electronics that infringe upon its patents." - [READ MORE]Read More
Published: 1/23/17Publication: Motley Fool"Just days after the Federal Trade Commission sued Qualcomm for antitrust concerns, Apple took an unprecedented step of similarly filling suit against one of its most important suppliers. The complaints are largely the same, but Apple felt compelled to file its own lawsuit in part to get the nearly $1 billion [...]
Published: 1/23/17Publication: Lexology"Ten years after the European Commission opened an investigation into Qualcomm's royalties for 3G essential patents, and 8 years after it closed that investigation without any finding of infringement, the US FTC last week week (January 2017) brought a new complaint against the chipset manufacturer's patent licensing practices. In the meantime, Qualcomm [...]