Published: 2/9/17

Publication: Morning Consult

“We take smartphones for granted, but they’re truly revolutionary. Today’s devices have greater computing power than the entire arsenal of NASA computers used to send the Apollo rockets to the moon.

Think about that the next time you check the price of bananas at the local supermarket from your smartphone.” – [READ MORE]

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Published: 2/9/15

Publication: Patently-O

“On February 8, the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) voted to approve a set of amendments to the organization’s patent policy.  The changes largely relate to the commitment of IEEE members to license patents to users of IEEE standards on terms that are ‘fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory’ (FRAND).  As most readers are aware, these commitments have been the subject of recent litigation.  IEEE’s Wi-Fi standards alone have […]

Published: 2/8/16

Publication: WIPR

Companies that own standard-essential patents (SEPs) must stick to their obligation of licensing them on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms, the EU commissioner for competition has said.

In a speech given to the College of Europe’s Global Competition Law Centre last week, EU commissioner Margrethe Vestager said: “I think the principle is clear: companies that own these patents can’t go back on the promise to license on FRAND terms that allowed their technology […]

Published: 2/8/16

Publication: Comparative Patent Remedies,

Section 283 of the Patent Act provides that, to prevent the ongoing infringement of a patent, courts “may grant injunctions in accordance with the principles of […]

Published: 2/7/17

Publication: IPKat

“Can you just agree the confidentiality club regime with the other side?”  If you are an associate in an English patent law practice  you will have had the joy of not only hearing that request but spending weeks negotiating the operation of and admission to the quintessential confidentiality club.  Although many faces fall when they are given this task, all English patent litigators cannot imagine a world without them.  The position is not the same in […]

Published: 2/3/16

Publication: Lexology

Margrethe Vestager, the European Competition Commissioner, has set out DG Competition’s enforcement priorities for 2016.

In a speech to the College of Europe’s Global Competition Law Centre on 1 February 2016, she highlighted two issues that will be of particular interest to readers of this blog: the digital economy and standard essential patents (“SEPs”).

Unsurprisingly, given the launch of the e-commerce sector enquiry last year (see our blogs on the launch of the […]