Published: 3/17/15Publication: ZDNetA jury in Texas decided that Apple did not infringe five wireless patents formerly held by Nokia that were sold to Canadian patent licensing firm Conversant. Conversant's wholly owned subsidiary Core Wireless Sarl sued Apple in 2012 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of [...]

Published: 2/25/15Publication: Virtual Strategy Magazine"CHICAGO, Feb. 25, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The trade group charged with managing standards over technology including wireless connectivity has adopted patent policy changes in line with counsel from a coalition of experts, including a professor from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Chief intellectual [...]

Published: 2/17/15Publication: Antitrust and Competition Newsletter"On Feb. 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a business review letter that effectively approved a proposal by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) to update the IEEE Standard Association’s Patent Policy (Policy) regarding standard-essential patents (SEPs) (the Update). The DOJ’s [...]

Published: 1/13/15Publication: European CommissionIn announcing enforcement actions involving the invocation of injunctive relief by two holders of FRAND-encumbered SEPs, the European Commission stated that “it is anti-competitive to use injunctions in relation to SEPs in the following circumstances:  when in a standardisation context, a SEP holder has committed to license [...]

Published: 12/12/16Publication: European Commission"In December 2016, the European Commission published two studies on standard essential patents (SEPs). A SEP protects technology that is essential to a standards such as those for 4G (LTE) and WiFi networks which rely on hundreds of patented technologies to work." - [READ MORE]Read More

Published: 12/12/16Publication: European Commission"This study provides unique statistical evidence on the importance of standard essential patents (SEPs) for key technologies in Europe. Based on a unique dataset, the report highlights trends at major standardisation bodies as well as the behaviours of SEP owners and information on their patent portfolio. Key [...]

Published: 12/12/16Publication: European Commission"In December 2016, the European Commission published a study assessing issues and solutions related to standard essential patents (SEPs) and the standardisation process. The analysis builds on a previous report on patents and standards (PDF, 580kB) prepared for the Commission and on the responses to a public consultation on patents and [...]

Published: 12/12/16Publication: National Law Review"On November 28, 2016, Baroness Neville Rolfe, the United KingdomMinister of State for Intellectual Property, announced that the U.K. would ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA), paving the way for the European Unified Patent Court (UPC). Commentators were generally surprised that the U.K, in the wake of [...]

Published: 12/9/16Publication: LimeGreen IP News"The case reported is the first French FRAND-case initiated after the Huawei/ZTE ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) on 16 July 2015 (Case C-170/13). The key discussion was not patent infringement but rather unfair competition due to the sending of letters [...]

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