Published: April 26, 2018 Publisher: Lexology Price differentiation is a topical issue. The increasing use of pricing algorithms offers the potential for companies to engage in ‘personalized’ pricing on a mass scale, offering different prices to different consumers based on an algorithmic assessment of the highest price each individual is [...]

Published: April 25, 2018 Publisher: IAM The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest technical professional organization, with hundreds of thousands of members. As a US-based standard-setting organization (SSO), the IEEE has successfully standardized thousands of fundamental technologies, including critical communications standards such as Wi-Fi and ethernet. [...]

Published: April 23, 2018 Publisher: IP Pro Patents Huawei and ZTE’s bid to dismiss Conversant’s patent infringement claims has been rejected by the English High Court. The Chinese companies had argued that the English court was not the right jurisdiction for the patent infringement claim, as the relief sought is [...]

Published: April 20, 2018 Publisher: JDSUPRA The findings from the recent Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf decision Mobiles Kommunikations system have established a new framework that should be followed when courts are benchmarking standard-essential patents (SEP) license offers. The court has commented on which requirements are to be placed on [...]

Published: April 20, 2018 Publisher: WIPR Huawei’s and ZTE’s attempt to escape a patent dispute with a licensing company by questioning the jurisdictional legitimacy of the English courts has been thwarted. Mr. Justice Henry Carr delivered the decision at the English High Court on Monday, April 16. Conversant Wireless Licensing [...]

Published: April 18, 2018 Publisher: IPKat Does the English Court have jurisdiction to grant relief in the form of a global FRAND license in relation to a claim for infringement of UK patents, where UK sales account for only 1% or less of worldwide sales on which royalties are claimed? [...]

Published: April 17, 2018 Publisher: World Trademark Review By their very nature, IP rights are monopolistic. Patent laws in particular, which seek to encourage innovation by granting limited monopolies over inventions, epitomize this aspect of IP rights. Since a patentee is statutorily empowered to prevent others from infringing its right [...]

Published: April 16, 2018 Publisher: Law.com No matter what the Federal Circuit or the new head of DOJ antitrust might have said, standard-essential patents and injunctions don’t mix. That’s the takeaway from U.S. District Judge William Orrick III’s order on April 13 in Samsung Electronics Co. and Huawei Technologies Co.’s worldwide [...]

Published: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Law 360 Commissioner Terrell McSweeny of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said it would be wrong for enforcers not to focus on patent holders in the standard-setting process, offering a bright contrast to recent policy pronouncements made by U.S. Department of Justice leadership. McSweeny [...]

Published: March 22, 2018 Publisher: Lexology In the subsequent months there have been some significant developments. The Commission’s Communication has been published (here, analysed in an article we wrote for the CIPA Journal here), although there was a notable absence of any specific reference to use-based or chipset licensing. The Nokia-backed [...]