Tag: Motorola
New Fed. Cir. Opinion Demonstrates That Patent Law Is Confusing
Part of the reason that patent trolls have so much success targeting small businesses is that patent law is arcane and filled with traps for the uninitiated. Obviously, patents themselves are hard to ...
An Analysis of the Final FTC-Motorola Settlement
Today, the FTC released its Final Order in its settlement with Motorola on the company’s use of standard essential patents (SEPs). Although there isn’t much “here” here, as the Commission i...
Customs Gets Embroiled in the Smartphone Patent Wars
There’s another front in the Smartphone Patent Wars that you may not have heard of, or may not know much about: a battle with U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) over whether Motorola can imp...
Observations on Crossing the RAND Rubicon
Last week a federal court crossed into uncharted territory, for the first time calculating the proper reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) royalty on a standard-essential patent (SEP). [PDF here...
FTC/Motorola Consent Decree Comments
Our friends over at the Essential Patent Blog beat us to it and posted the full list of comments submitted to the FTC on the Motorola Consent Decree. If you want to read through them, here is a link...
Summarizing the Amici Briefs in Apple-Motorola before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
On June 22 Judge Richard Posner, sitting in designation, dismissed a patent infringement case between Motorola and Apple which included 15 Apple patents and 6 Motorola patents. Judge Posner explaine...
Samsung v. Apple at the ITC – Summarizing the Public Interest Briefs
On November 19 the ITC announced that the full Commission would review the Final Initial Determination in Investigation 337-TA-794, Samsung v. Apple. The ALJ had determined that there was no infring...
Lessons from Apple v. Motorola in Wisconsin
The FTC’s recent consent order in its merger review in In the Matter of Robert Bosch GmbH – a combination of manufacturing companies that make air conditioning recycling, recovery, and recharge p...