Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Justice issued an updated Business Review Letter (BRL) for the IEEE patent policy. The new letter offers an important clarification on how antitrust analysis of standards...more
10/5/2020
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Apple ,
Business Review Letters ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FRAND ,
IEEE ,
Intel ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
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Patent Litigation ,
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Trade Secrets
Apple and the Fearsome five are doing it again. The same people who pushed the fallacious “troll bogeyman”; engaged in PTAB proxy warfare, seemingly immunized by the “real party in interest doctrine”; invented the...more
8/24/2020
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Antitrust Litigation ,
App Developers ,
Apple ,
FRAND ,
IP License ,
Lenovo ,
Mobile Apps ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Royalties ,
Patents ,
Qualcomm ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Trade Associations ,
Willful Infringement
Recently, the Department of Justice issued a business review letter (BRL) relating to Avanci’s proposed 5G licensing platform for patents declared as potentially essential owned by its globally diverse thirty eight...more
8/8/2020
/ 5G Network ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Business Review Letters ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
End-Users ,
European Commission ,
IEEE ,
IP License ,
Online Platforms ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Registration ,
Patent Royalties ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Standard Essential Patents