Published: 12/8/15Publication: Economic Times TelecomInnovation, technology and entrepreneurship have of late emerged as key objectives for the Modi Government. Almost every foreign trip of the Prime Minister has been a platform to strongly promote the ‘Digital India’ project, making it a political and economic priority for India’s incumbent government. It [...]

Published: 12/8/15Publication: WIPR Vague terms in the CJEU’s decision in Huawei v ZTE leave parties with little guidance on how to act when negotiating SEP licences, particularly from an alleged infringer’s perspective. Natalia Porto of Preiskel & Co reports. The Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) decision in Huawei [...]

Published: 12/7/16Publication: Lexology"At the end of last month, Commissioner Vestager gave a speech at the Chillin’ Competition Conference. The focus: how competition law can protect consumers from anti-competitive behaviours. The Commissioner gave examples of situations in which intervention could be justified, two of which are of particular interest in the [...]

Published: 12/7/15Publication: Patently-OIn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (Fed. Cir., Dec. 1, 2015), the Federal Circuit established important new guidelines for the calculation of “reasonable royalty” damages for standards-essential patents (SEPs), even in the absence of the patent holder’s commitment to license on reasonable and nondiscriminatory [...]

Published: 12/6/16Publication: Mlex"The patent wars among global mobile phone makers are likely to intensify in India, and the Competition Commission of India, or CCI, will also look into anticompetitive conduct by patent holders, an adviser to the Indian government has said. Seema Gaur, an economic adviser at the Department of [...]

Published: 12/4/15Publication: China BriefingChina’s IPR (intellectual property rights) protection system is expanding and improving, but it remains vastly different from the European system. Accordingly, to be successful in China a business must take preventative measures to protect its intellectual property rights; one must obtain valid IPR rights in China as [...]

Published: 12/3/15Publication: Essential Patent BlogToday, a three-judge Federal Circuit panel (Prost (author),  Dyk and Hughes) issued its awaited decision in CSIRO v. Cisco that agreed-in-part and disagreed-in-part with Judge Davis’ damages award based on patents alleged to be essential to the IEEE 802.11 WiFi standard, but which patents did not have any FRAND or [...]

Published: 12/3/15Publication: Financial ExpressIn a major setback for the promoters of home-grown handset maker Micromax, the Delhi High Courton Wednesday issued bailable warrants against three of them — Sumeet Kumar, Rahul Sharma and Vikas Jain — in a matter of contempt on its earlier order of November 2014 relating to payment [...]

Published: 12/2/15The First Instance Court of Paris has held* that when asserting alleged Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”), a patent holder first has to show that the process claimed in the asserted patent is identical to the process disclosed in the underlying standard. Vringo Infrastructure Inc. (“Vringo”) purchased roughly 500 patents [...]

Published: 12/2/15Publication: Law60 There has been recent discussion about the possibility of applying the fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory[1] royalty rates awarded by the courts for standard-essential patents to patents that are not essential to practicing a standard. For patent owners, this would transform the U.S. patent system from a winner-takes-most [...]