Published: 5/20/16Publication: LexologyThe Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Government of India released the much awaited National IPR Policy on May 13, 2016, with a vision to transform India as a knowledge economy. Under the tag line “Creative India; Innovative India,” the Policy hopes to catalyse the innovation ecosystem [...]
Published: 5/18/16Publication: LexologyIn Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and others the claimant, Unwired Planet, claimed that the defendants had infringed its patent for a method of improving handovers between mobile telecommunication systems. The three issues for Birss J to determine were whether the patent (1) had been infringed; [...]
Published: 5/18/16Publication: LexologyThe Competition Bureau released a revised version of its Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines (“IPEGs”) on March 31, 2016, following an extensive public consultation process held in 2015 based on previous drafts released in 2014 and 2015. [READ MORE] Read More
Published: 5/17/16Publication: LexologyOn 13 May 2016, the Union Cabinet approved India’s first Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) policy for awareness, creation, commercialization, protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property (IP) in India. As our readers may recall, the Indian Patent Office (IPO) had previously published a draft IPR policy on 9 January [...]
Published: 4/29/16Publication: The QuintIn March 2013, the Swedish multinational Ericsson sued Micromax for patent infringement, setting in motion a series of events, with the potential to disturb India’s mobile phone dream. Then last month the Delhi High Court recognised the authority of the regulator – the Competition Commission of India (CCI) – to [...]
Published: 4/25/16Publication: National Law ReviewOn April 20, 2016, the European Commission (Commission) cleared, under its merger control rules, the acquisition of Equens and PaySquare by Worldline subject to, amongst others, a commitment to license technology to any customer interested, at Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) conditions. Read More
Published: 4/18/16Publication: The National Law ReviewOn April 13, 2016, the US District Court for the District of Delaware denied InterDigital’s motion to dismiss an antitrust suit filed by Microsoft (Microsoft Mobile, Inc. v. InterDigital, Inc., Case No. 15-cv-723-RGA). In the suit, Microsoft alleged that InterDigital engaged in an unlawful scheme [...]
Published: 4/14/16Publication: Essential Patent BlogYesterday, Judge Andrews in the District of Delaware issued an Order that denied InterDigital’s motion to dismiss Microsoft’s Complaint that alleged violation of antitrust laws based on InterDigital’s enforcement of patents alleged to be essential to 3G and 4G cellular ETSI standards and subject to commitments to license on fair, [...]
Published: 4/13/16Publication: IAMThe UK Patents Court recently handed down its judgment in the third technical trial in the ongoing dispute between Unwired Planet and various mobile phone and infrastructure manufacturers.Read More
Published: 3/31/16Publication: LexologyThese days, there’s so much technology inside household device that some of them, like smart fridges, can communicate with other devices and even take care of your shopping for you. There are also lots of new legal questions hiding inside those devices, including privacy, data protection and cybersecurity [...]