Published: 1/1/12 The U.S. FTC settled charges that a company acquired by Robert Bosch GmbH (Bosch) “reneged on a licensing commitment made to two standard-setting bodies to license its standards-essential patents (‘SEPs’) … on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (‘FRAND’) by seeking injunctions against willing licensees of those SEPs.” In [...]
Published: 3/1/11 In this report, the FTC addressed the issue of a reasonable royalty for FRAND-encumbered SEPs. The Commission recommended that “[c]ourts should cap the royalty at the incremental value of the patented technology over alternatives available at the time the standard was chosen.” The FTC explained that setting the [...]
Published: 7/23/09Note: No link available. On 23 July 2009, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) decided to impose final corrective measures and a penalty of USD 227.6 million on Qualcomm for abusing its dominant position in the CDMA technology market. The KFTC determined that Qualcomm excluded its competitors and maintained [...]
Published: 8/3/13The letter from USTR disapproved of, and thus overturned, the ITC’s decision in a section 337 case to issue (i) an exclusion order that would have prohibited the importation of Apple smartphones and tablets that allegedly infringed a FRAND-encumbered SEP patent owned by Samsung; and (ii) a cease and [...]