Published: 2/24/16Publication: IAMThe UK Patents Court recently handed down judgment in the ongoing dispute between Unwired Planet and various mobile phone and infrastructure manufacturers. FactsUnwired Planet asserted six of its European patents, which were acquired from Ericsson, in both the United Kingdom and Germany. Unwired Planet believed that this was [...]
Published: 2/23/16Publication: LexologyThis year the IP world will be brimming with changes, the largest of which will take place in the European Union. Sweeping reforms in EU trademark law will be implemented in March as well as the likelihood of the Unitary Patent making its debut in Europe at some [...]
Published: 2/23/16Publication: Hindustan TimesHigh patent royalty fees charged by foreign technology firms are fast emerging a major hurdle for India’s ambitions of turning into a global mobile manufacturing hub. Mobile phone makers such as Micromax, Intex, Lava and iBall will together pay at least Rs 2,000 crore in royalty payments [...]
Published: 2/19/16Publication: The Financial Express,A huge influx of imported ‘phone components’ on zero duty and zero countervailing duty (CVD) and minimum quality standards has disrupted business models for mobile handset industry. While the government is encouraging making-in-India and companies like Sony are initiating manufacturing Android TVs here, most Indian brands [...]
Published: 2/18/16Publication: Morrison and Foerster,Two recent German court decisions address requirements for obtaining injunctions based on standard essential patents (SEPs), applying the rules established by the European Court of Justice in its Huawei v. ZTE decision. The ECJ’s decision sets out a specific process for an SEP owner to avoid [...]
Published: 2/15/16Publication: IPKatThe IPKat has been aware for some time that the Patents Court, in the person of Mr Justice Birss, has been devoting considerable time to a series of cases concerning mobile phone technology (Unwired Planet v Huawei and Samsung). The dispute concerns five patents which Unwired Planet [...]
Published: 1/30/16Japan’s Fair Trade Commission recently revised its Guidelines for the use of Intellectual Property under the Antimonopoly Act. This is the second jurisdiction in the last year or so to characterize, by guideline or regulation (as opposed to relying only on enforcement authority), certain breaches of FRAND commitments as anti-competitive [...]
Published: 1/29/16Publication: Comparative Patent RemediesOn July 16, 2015, the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in Huawei v. ZTE, setting out certain conditions under which E.U. competition law precludes the owner of a FRAND-committed standard-essential patent (SEP) from seeking injunctive relief for the unauthorized use [...]
Published: 1/28/16Publication: LexologyThe State Council of China released a new draft amendment to the Patent Law submitted by the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) on December 2, 2015 for public comments. The amended clauses that catch particular attentions are those concerning the expansion of administrative enforcement power, striking [...]
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