Tag: FRAND
Why SMART Isn’t Smart – Importing FRAND’s Flaws Into Copyright
This piece was originally posted at the Disruptive Competition Project.
“Intellectual property,” as a term, is a problem. It groups together areas of law that, while they may share some ...
FRAND, RAND, & the Problem at Hand: Increasing Certainty in Infringement Damages for Standard-Essential Patents
When Standard-Setting Organizations (“SSOs”) set various industry standards, they often require the incorporation of certain technologies (and, therefore, their underlying patents) into the standa...
Unwired Planet Decision May Lead To Crossed Wires On SEP Royalties
Last week, the UK Supreme Court ruled that it was legally permissible for UK courts to set worldwide license rates for patents that are subject to fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory license (FRA...
Is Big Tech FRANDly to Competition?
On Tuesday, Apple released a new policy on its website relating to the obscure topic of “FRAND” licensing of patents. That’s an especially obscure corner of the already-obscure area of patent la...
Voting Machines, Patents, and National Security
When standard-essential patents (SEPs) are in the news, it’s usually in the context of cellular or wireless networking standards. Maybe you’ve thought about how standards govern other things...
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...
Reports of Qualcomm’s Imminent Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Last week, the first patent jury trial between Qualcomm and Apple concluded, with the jury deciding that Apple had infringed three Qualcomm patents and awarding Qualcomm damages. Outside of Qual...