Published: September 27, 2017 Publisher: Out-law “New guidance on how businesses should go about negotiating the terms of licence agreements for standard-essential patents has been provided by the Düsseldorf Appeals Court in a recently published ruling. The judgment builds on principles established in case law by the EU's highest court, and also highlights [...]
Published: September 21, 2017 Publisher: Phone Arena “Judge Gonzolo P. Curiel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, today rejected Qualcomm's request for a preliminary injunction. Qualcomm was hoping that the court would force manufacturers of the Apple iPhone and AppleiPad to pay the chip maker royalties for the use of certain Qualcomm patents. These [...]
Published: September 20, 2017 Publisher: Apple Insider “Apple and Qualcomm have a complex relationship, in that Apple doesn't directly license Qualcomm's patents involved in this case. Instead, Apple's contract manufacturers Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal pay licensing fees to Qualcomm for the use of its patents involved in manufacturing cellular iPads [...]
Published: September 19, 2017 Publisher: IAM “US district court judge James Robart has taken aim at the decision handed down by Justice Colin Birss in the high profile London High Court SEP/FRAND case of Unwired Planet v Huawei, decided earlier this year. Speaking at the annual IPO meeting in San Franciscoyesterday, Robart – who handed [...]
Published: September 18, 2017 Publisher: European Commission Press Release “On 13 September, in his annual State of the Union address, President Jean-Claude Juncker stated: "I want to make our industry stronger and more competitive. The new Industrial Policy Strategy we are presenting today will help our industries stay or become the [...]
Published: September 15, 2017 Publisher: IAM “A state-owned entity from Guangzhou is the plaintiff in China’s latest SEP enforcement effort, and the world’s top TV seller, Samsung, is among those in the crosshairs. Shenzhen-based Skyworth and Shandong-based Hisense are the other targets in the campaign, which centres on a domestic Chinese audio-related standards. Digital [...]
Published: September 13, 2017 Publisher: Law360 “In a recent article, Maureen Ohlhausen, the acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, delivered a sobering attack on the agency, noting that it and other antitrust agencies have “lost sight of core antitrust principles.” This critique goes to the very core of the raison d’etre [...]
Published: September 11, 2017 Publisher: USA Today "Global business practices are now under scrutiny like never before thanks to President Trump’s pledge to pull the U.S. out of bad trade deals. The idea that industrial giants have been acting in ways counter to principles countries have agreed upon is the subject [...]
Published: September 8, 2017 Publisher: The Recorder “Qualcomm Inc. lost two pretrial skirmishes on Friday in its patent and antitrust battle against Apple Inc.—in just about every way imaginable. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel of San Diego repeatedly found that Qualcomm had misstated the law, overreached with its arguments or was [...]
Published: September 6, 2017 Publisher: Forbes “Nokia’s licensing business has been in the news over the last few months after Apple agreed to pay the company €1.7 billion (~$2 billion) upfront to settle outstanding patent licensing disputes. Although patent royalties have accounted for a very small portion of Nokia’s overall revenues historically, [...]