Published: 5/4/17Publication: IP Whiteboard“The UK High Court’s 150+ page epic on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licence terms in Unwired Planet v Huawei has stirred up a lot of commentary in the tech nerd space and the international patent community (across which there is probably a fair bit of overlap). [...]

Published: 5/4/16Publication: Spicy IPIn this post, Swati continues her analysis of the recent decision of the Delhi High Court in Telefonaktiebolaget lm Ericsson v Competition Commission of India...[READ MORE]Read More

Published: 5/3/17Publication: Mondaq“Unwired Planet is a non-practicing entity (NPE) whose business is to licence its patents to companies who make or use telecommunications equipment. Unwired Planet holds a worldwide portfolio of patents, including many that are declared essential to certain wireless telecommunications standards such as 2G, 3G and 4G LTE.” [...]

Published: 5/3/17Publication: IAM"As well as driver assistance, software can integrate a smartphone with a car’s infotainment system, such as Apple’s CarPlay, Google’s Android Auto or the Car Connectivity Consortium’s MirrorLink.  The next generation of driver assistance will include so-called ‘connected cars’, which could remove a driver from direct involvement in [...]

Published: 5/3/16Publication: LexologyOn 19 April 2016 the European Commission published its Communication ‘ICT Standardisation Priorities for the Digital Single Market‘...[READ MORE]Read More

Published: 5/2/17Publication: ET Telecom"Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson said has become more challenging to deal with companies over fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms and conditions to license its standard essential patents (SEPs) around legacy technologies like 2G and 3G among others, following the mushrooming of handset companies across the globe." -- [READ [...]

Published: 5/2/16Publication: LexologyIn its Huawei v. ZTE decision of July 16, 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) set out a new framework under which the owner of a standard essential patent (SEP) can seek injunctive relief against an infringer without abusing a dominant position under Art. 102 TFEU. To [...]

Published: 4/12/17Publication: IPKat"It has been a busy couple of weeks for standard essential patents (SEPs).  Last week, we had the Unwired Planet v Huawei decision on FRAND (see post by the Amerikat here), and now we have the European Commission's roadmap on SEPs.  With thanks to Katfriend Colm Ahern (Elzaburu, Madrid) who brings us up to [...]

Published: 4/12/17Publication: Lexology"The lengthy, long-awaited judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei Technologies provides guidance on the determination of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalty rates for standard-essential patents on a worldwide basis. This report sets out a summary of the key conclusions." -- [READ MORE]Read More

Published: 4/12/17Publication: Lexology"In this long awaited decision (Unwired Planet v Huawei 2017 EWHC 711 (Pat)), the question of what is a “Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory” (FRAND) licence to work a Standards Essential Patent (SEP) has been addressed for the first time by a judge in Europe. The English High Court held [...]