Published: 12/29/16Publication: FOSS PatentsSouth Korea's competition watchdog, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), has just imposed a $853 million fine on Qualcomm for "monpolistic" practices involving its patent dealings. In particular, the antitrust agency stated that Qualcomm "has violated its agreement to license patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms." Qualcomm can [...]
Published: 12/27/16Publication: Bloomberg"South Korea’s antitrust regulator slapped a record 1.03 trillion won ($853 million) fine on Qualcomm Inc. for violating antitrust laws, the latest in a string of government actions that threaten the U.S. chipmaker’s most profitable business. The South Korean Fair Trade Commission said Wednesday that the company licensed its key [...]
Published: 12/23/16Publication: Essential Patent Blog"Magistrate Judge Nathanael M. Cousins recently denied Apple’s equitable defense that sought to hold a Core Wireless standard essential patent unenforceable because the prior patent owner Nokia allegedly failed to timely disclose to the ETSI standards body a pending patent application. Judge Cousins also entered Final Judgment based on the [...]
Published: 12/21/16Publication: The Street"Apple Inc. has filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against patent lawsuit machines Acacia Research Corp., and Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc., accusing them of colluding with Nokia Corp. "to extract and extort exorbitant revenues" from Apple and other cellphone makers. Apple accuses Acacia and the other companies [...]
Published: 11/29/16Publication: FOSS Patents"There was a time when I spent most Fridays--and occasionally also a Tuesday--in Mannheim (and on trains from Munich to Mannheim and back) to watch numerous smartphone patent trials. After coming to terms with a prohibition on making Internet connections from the courtroom (which prevented me from [...]
Published: 11/28/16Publication: Lexology""The Düsseldorf Court of Appeal’s first oral hearing in the proceedings “Sisvel vs. Haier” took place on 17 November 2016. Sisvel sued Haier on the ground of the Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”) EP 1 264 504 and EP 0 852 885 which are part of Sisvel’s “Wireless Portfolio”. [...]
Published: 11/22/16Publication: Essential Patent Blog"Judge Gilstrap recently entered Final Judgment that included a 20% enhancement of damages based on a Jury Verdict that LG willfully infringed two patents that patent owner Core Wireless alleged to be essential to certain cellular standards. This appears to be the first case of a court enhancing damages based [...]
Published: 11/21/16Publication: European Commission"I want to thank Alfonso Lamadrid and Pablo Ibáñez Colomo very much for inviting me to be here. One of the first interviews I did after starting this job was with the Chillin’ Competition blog. And I'm afraid it may have given me the wrong idea of [...]
Published: 11/15/16Publication: IAM"Dolby has reportedly sued Oppo and Vivo in the Delhi High Court, accusing the two Chinese electronics and smartphone manufacturers of failing to pay appropriate royalties for use of its patented technologies. Dolby follows Ericsson in seeking to assert its rights in India, something that may indicate that the [...]
Published: 11/14/16Publication: World IP Review"Standards are governed by the intellectual property policies of the standard-setting organisations (SSOs) that propagate them, and also competition law, due to the fact that standards are agreements between competitors to make one product and not another. There are generally no regulations or statutes directly applicable [...]