Published: November 8, 2017 Publisher: IPPro Patents "IP Europe has claimed that, if implemented, a ‘licence to all’ system for standard essential patents (SEPs) in Europe could be a “licence to kill” for innovation in Europe. The research and development organisation, whose corporate members include Airbus, Ericsson, Nokia and Orange, claimed that [...]
Published: November 8, 2017 Publisher: IAM "You just don’t get injunctions in cases relating to standard essential patents in the US, do you? Absolutely not, in almost all circumstances. However, during a presentation at last week’s IPBC Asia in Tokyo, Vinson & Elkins partner John Fuisz drew delegates’ attention to a recent initial determination [...]
Published: November 7, 2017 Publisher: ACT | The App Association In a new blog post, IP Europe gave its favorite false narrative a new coat of paint by suggesting that the bedrock FRAND requirement of “license for all” equates to some kind of “license to kill.” It’s a clever turn-of-phrase designed to appeal to [...]
Published: November 6, 2017 Publisher: IAM "A fundamental change to SEP licensing related to mobile communications technology is on the verge of being proposed by the European Commission. According to IP Europe – a coalition of IP intensive, R&D companies including Orange, Ericsson and Nokia – plans being championed by the [...]
Published: November 6, 2017 Publisher: Lexology "On April 20 2017 the Beijing High People's Court issued the newly revised Guidelines for Patent Infringement Determination in Chinese, English and Japanese. The guidelines include sections on: determining the scope of protection of inventions and utility models; determining what constitutes invention and utility model infringement; [...]
Published: November 2, 2017 Publisher: Lexology "In his latest decision in the Unwired Planet v Huawei case, Mr Justice Birss has provided guidance on the nature and scope of remedies available to Standard Essential Patent (SEP) owners in the UK, including availability of a new type of injunction called a “FRAND injunction”. This decision [...]
Published: October 26, 2017 Publisher: IAM “A battle is waging inside the European Commission over the wording of a Communication due to be issued at the end of next month on transparency in SEP/FRAND licensing. The text is scheduled to include a list of what the Commission considers to be acceptable [...]
Published: October 25, 2017 Publisher: Lexology “In April this year we reported that the Commission had released a Roadmap towards a ‘Communication on Standard Essential Patents for a European digitalised economy’, intended to address some of the uncertainties in SEP licensing left unresolved following Huawei v ZTE (see e.g. here), and to drive progress for the EU-wide adoption [...]
Published: October 20, 2017 Publisher: IP Pro Patents “The App Association (ACT) and the Fair Standards Alliance have penned a letter to European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENLEC) lambasting a recently created draft project plan for a code of conduct on licensing standard-essential patents (SEPs) for 5G [...]
Published: October 19, 2017 Publisher: IP Pro Patents “The App Association (ACT) has called on the European Commission to prohibit any form of use-based pricing of technology essential to the internet of things. The commission is set to issue guidance on how standard-essential patents should be licensed to help the [...]