Published: December 7, 2017 Publisher: Lexology “Industry standards are an important tool to ensure that consistent, compatible approaches are adopted by all participants in a particular field. For example, in industries such as electronics and telecommunications, there is a need to ensure interoperability and compatibility of products made by competing manufacturers. [...]
Published: December 7, 2017 Publisher: Mondaq “In April 2016, the European Commission identified three areas of the SEP licensing environment that needed improvement: (1) opaque information on SEP exposure (2) unclear valuation of patented technologies reading on standards and the definition of FRAND and (3) the risk of uncertainty in relation [...]
Published: December 4, 2017 Publisher: Huffington Post “Last month the iPhone X, a $999-$1149.99 smartphone commemorating 10 years of the iPhone became available; and while 5G technology is on the horizon it isn’t quite ready for Apple’s newest products. The conventional understanding is that 5G will roll out by 2019, but one [...]
Published: November 29, 2017 Publisher: IPKat “Today the EU Commission published their much-awaited and debated communication on standard essential patent (SEP) licensing. The document entitled "Setting out the EU approach to Standard Essential Patents" contains 14 pages of key principles aimed at fostering a "balanced, smooth and predictable framework for SEPs". The key principles [...]
Published: November 29, 2017 Publisher: IAM “The European Commission’s long-awaited Communication on the licensing of standards essential patents was finally published this morning and, on an initial read, it looks like SEP owners have a fair amount to be pleased about – especially given how things were looking a couple of weeks [...]
Published: November 28, 2017 Publisher: Yonhap “South Korea's highest court has rejected U.S. mobile phone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.'s call to suspend the implementation of corrective measures taken by the country's anti-trust watchdog, the Fair Trade Commission said Tuesday. In December last year, the FTC slapped Qualcomm with a record fine of [...]
Yonhap News Agency By Staff November 28, 2017 “South Korea's highest court has rejected U.S. mobile phone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.'s call to suspend the implementation of corrective measures taken by the country's anti-trust watchdog, the Fair Trade Commission said Tuesday. In December last year, the FTC slapped Qualcomm with a [...]
Published: November 27, 2017 Publisher: Trust in IP “Recently, the debate on the applicability of competition law to the licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) has come to a turning point. Indeed, both the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the European Commission are making an attempt to provide a final answer to [...]
Published: November 23, 2017 Publisher: Lexology “Earlier this year, the High Court handed down its judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei. This decision set the FRAND (Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) royalty rate Huawei must pay for a licence to Unwired Planet's portfolio of standard essential mobile telecoms patents. The judgment [...]
Published: November 23, 2017 Publisher: Mondaq “For years, there has been robust debate among legal scholars, practitioners, and enforcers over whether and how the antitrust laws should be applied in the context of industry standard setting, and, in particular, with regard to violations of FRAND licensing commitments made by holders of standard-essential [...]