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France Has Entered the Chat: Sun Patent Trust Asks French Court to Determine Global FRAND Rate for LTE-Advanced SEPs

Last week, Sun Patent Trust sued Xiaomi in France for infringement of patents claimed to be essential to the LTE-Advanced standard. In its suit, Sun Patent Trust asked French courts to set a global FRAND rate—something that...more

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Mandamus Denied but Jurisdictional Door Left Open a Crack

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied a patent owner’s writ of mandamus seeking to prevent a defendant from amending its answer to add an affirmative licensing defense, but also noted that the defense was...more

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One for All, and All for One . . . Except When It Comes to Patent License Comparability

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Examining whether portfolio patent licenses can be sufficiently comparable to a single-patent license for the purposes of supporting a patent damages verdict, a split panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...more

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McDermott International Legal Highlights November 2016

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The New World of Global Tax Planning: a Checklist for Success - As all multinationals (MNEs) are discovering, domestic implementation of the recommendations set out in the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) final...more

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Case Is Partially Stayed While Motion To Dismiss Is Decided

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International Business Machines Corporation v. The Priceline Group Inc., et al., C.A. No. 15-137-LPS-CJB, August 18, 2015. Burke, M. J. Defendants’ motion to stay pending resolution of defendants’ motion to dismiss...more

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Patent Hold-Up or Patent Hold-Out? Judge Essex Adds His Voice to the SEP-FRAND Debate

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Administrative Law Judge Essex recently issued the public version of his Initial Determination in ITC investigation No. 337-TA-868, ruling that the respondents are precluded from relying on the defense that the patent holder...more

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Implied License Limited to Continuation Applications, Not to Provisionals

Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Actavis, Inc. - Addressing the issue of implied license, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction, finding...more

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Federal Circuit Refuses to Find Implied License for Endo Opana Patents

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In Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Actavis, Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s decision denying Endo’s motion for summary judgment of infringement based on an implied license. The Federal Circuit found that...more

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