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: June 1, 2018 Publisher: Law 360 Tech groups representing the tech, auto and retail industries Thursday released a white paper pushing back at a suggestion by a top U.S. antitrust official that enforcers should shift their focus away from potential abuses by holders of patents crucial to standard industries [...]
Published: May, 2018 Publisher: Who's Who Legal (WWL) In the 2G era of wireless telecommunications (1990s and early 2000s) we saw huge collaborative advances in technology, with each contributor building on the work of others. But there was comparatively little patent litigation. Each technology developer wanted its competitors to pay [...]
Published: May 31, 2018 Publisher: IAM A group of advocacy groups with close ties to the high-tech, automotive and retail industries have released a new paper calling into question several of the policy positions staked out by US antitrust chief Makan Delrahim regarding the application of antitrust law to the [...]
Published: May 30, 2018 Publisher: Bloomberg Law Six industry associations want the Justice Department's antitrust chief to reconsider his view that antitrust law shouldn't apply to holders of patents that are essential to industry technology standards. "Antitrust law has an important role to play in addressing the problem of hold-up [...]
Published: May 23, 2018 Publisher: Lexology The High People's Court of Guangdong issued guidelines for hearing standard essential patent (SEP) disputes (the SEP Guidelines - available here in Chinese) on April 26, 2018. The High People's Court of Guangdong is one of China's most important forums for IP disputes and [...]
Published: May 18, 2018 Publisher: FOSS Patents Given the importance of this subject, I'll now republish an open letter that 77 former government officials and professors (of law, economics, and business) have sent Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim in order to remind him of long-standing and consistent U.S. policies on [...]
Published: May 17, 2018 Publisher: Competition Policy International (CPI) On May 17, 2018, an open letter was addressed to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim by 77 former government enforcement officials and academics, who do not believe his recent speeches on patents and patent holdup "are consistent with the broad bipartisan [...]
Published: April 30, 2018 Publisher: Reuters Qualcomm Inc. has broadened its use of a lower-cost licensing model for the next generation of mobile data networks, a move that could help in contentious talks with two customers including iPhone maker Apple Inc., the wireless tech company's patent licensing chief said on [...]