Tag: FTC
U.S. Effort to Create 5G Huawei Alternative Potentially Vulnerable to SEP Patent Litigation
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on a White House plan to coordinate the development of 5G systems by American companies. The effort is intended to provide a domestic alternative to Huawei ...
Judge Koh: Qualcomm’s Licensing Practices Destroyed Competition, Harmed Consumers
Late yesterday evening, Judge Koh issued her anxiously-awaited ruling in the FTC v. Qualcomm litigation. The 233-page opinion extensively describes Qualcomm’s anti-competitive conduct, how it ...
Anything Qualcomm Can Do, Huawei Can Do (Better?)
With the settlement of the Apple-Qualcomm litigation, the fate of the FTC’s litigation against Qualcomm has become the next topic of interest in the standard-essential patent (SEP) sphere. The...
Apple, Qualcomm Settle—But That Doesn’t Mean The FTC Should
Apple and Qualcomm have reached a global settlement to the wide-ranging dispute between the two companies. Stretching from China to the UK to the US, in a range of forums in various countries, A...
Delrahim Out Of Step With FTC, Industry, Academics On FRAND/SEP
Jacqueline Yin is a Legal Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association. This post is also online at Project DisCo.
In the U.S., antitrust laws are typically enforced by both t...
CCIA Files Additional Comments In Qualcomm ITC Case
Last June, CCIA filed comments on the public interest issues implicated by Qualcomm’s ITC complaint against Apple. (The ITC is required to take into account whether the public interest would be ha...
Qualcomm Has Been Violating Its Obligation To License Competitors For Years
Today, Judge Koh issued an important ruling in the FTC v. Qualcomm litigation centered on Qualcomm’s anti-competitive trade practices. Ruling on a motion for partial summary judgment, Judge Koh de...
FTC Hearings #4: Patents, Intellectual Property, and Innovation
This post has been cross-posted to DisCo.
Last week, the FTC held the fourth in its set of hearings focusing on “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.” The first day focused ...
CCIA, ACT File Amicus Brief In FTC v. Qualcomm
Yesterday, CCIA and ACT filed an amicus brief in the FTC’s case against Qualcomm in the Northern District of California. As explained in the brief, the FRAND obligation which patent owners volunta...