This blog has long noted that large Big Tech implementers (e.g., Apple and Google) are engaged in a long term play to incrementally drive down (to zero) their costs and knee-cap their potential competitors before they are a...more
CONCLUSION and Footnotes -
Disclosures of potentially standard-essential patents and patent applications have for long been a topic of little interest for third parties to the collaborative standardization process. Yet,...more
DISCLOSURES AND ENFORCEABILITY OF SEPS -
Beyond the SDO IPRs policies themselves, disclosures of standard essential patents in the SDO context are also influenced by legal developments, and in particular by antitrust...more
Patent litigation, the Sport of Kings, does not come cheap, especially when the litigation transmogrifies into a multi-jurisdictional slugfest. When managing a global patent fight, it is important to keep the big picture in...more
3/4/2021
/ FRAND ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
IP License ,
Litigation Fees & Costs ,
Nokia ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Royalties ,
Patents ,
Royalties ,
Standard Essential Patents
In the highly contentious world of SEP licensing, one of the biggest debates in recent years has been between advocates of compulsory “access to all” and the existing “license to all” Regimes. Framed as such, this is an...more
11/23/2020
/ Antitrust Violations ,
European Commission ,
FRAND ,
IEEE ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
License Agreements ,
Licensing Rules ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Royalties ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Standard Essential Patents
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
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
Previously we addressed some of the key omissions in Unified Patents’ article “FRAND SCAM.” This post discusses the article’s failure to address the heavy criticism of the royalty calculations in the TCL decision forms the...more