The Google that has joined Via Licensing’s LTE pool is the real Google–not the FRAND abuser
Published: 4/10/15
Publication: FOSS Patents
Yesterday’s announcement that Google has agreed to make its LTE (4G) standard-essential patents, all or most of which previously belonged to Motorola, available through Via Licensing’s LTE patent pool, is for all intents and purposes more meaningful than most settlements of patent disputes between industry players are. It means that Google is being Google again, and has distanced itself from the abusive conduct that gave rise to antitrust investigations in the U.S. (consent order) […]
Appeals court not inclined to toss $14.5 million FRAND breach verdict against Google’s Motorola
Published: 4/9/15
Publication: FOSS Patents
More than 4½ years after Microsoft sued Motorola for not renewing a license agreement (a renewal that would likely have been costly after Motorola stopped making Windows devices), Motorola still hasn’t paid Microsoft a dime in patent royalties on its Android devices, and for now there’s no reason to assume that Motorola will come under serious legal pressure in the near term to do so. What Microsoft may, however, receive before or around the […]
Google seeks tweak to Microsoft-Motorola patent case
Published: 4/9/15
Publication: CNet
The strife between Microsoft and Google over Motorola Mobility patents is far from resolved.
Google on Wednesday asked the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside a patent rate established by a lower judge in its ongoing royalties case against Microsoft, according to Reuters, which obtained a copy of the document.
Google’s attorneys said that US District Judge James Robart’s decision in 2013 to assign a royalty rate of about $1.8 million per year […]
Dusseldorf Regional Court rules on SEP portfolio splitting
Published: 4/8/16
Publication: Lexology
In three decisions dated 19 January 2016 the Dusseldorf Regional Court held for infringement of the German parts of the European patents EP 1 230 818, EP 2 485 514 and EP 2 119 287 owned by the plaintiff Unwired Planet (in the following: the Patents) and ordered the defendant Samsung to provide information and to render account of past sales in Germany.
The UK’s first-ever court decision on FRAND/SEP licensing could be a global game-changer
Published: 4/7/17
Publication: IAM
“On Wednesday, the High Court sitting in London handed down the UK’s first-ever decisionin a case relating to the licensing of standard essential patents on a FRAND basis. It came down on the side of licensor Unwired Planet in its dispute with Huawei, and provided a long, very detailed explanation as to why it had decided to do so. Significantly, given the state of play in the US, Unwired Planet is a non-practising entity (whose […]