Executive Summary -
The 2013 statement was a favor to Apple and Google and was widely misinterpreted and misused (often intentionally by opportunistic infringers found by courts and/or the ITC to be “unwilling). It was...more
Apple’s long-term campaign to avoid paying FRAND SEP licensing fees continues unabated. In what has become a modus operendi, every time Apple’s license with a major SEP licensors – Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola,...more
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
/ Antitrust Litigation ,
Apple ,
Business Review Letters ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FRAND ,
IEEE ,
Intel ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
IP License ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
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
/ Amicus Briefs ,
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
As I have documented elsewhere, Apple, for quite a long time has been engaged in a sophisticated long-term quest to devalue (p7) standard essential patents (“Essential Patents”). This strategy is aimed at reducing, if not...more