Tag: FRAND
Delrahim Pulls DoJ Out Of FRAND-SEP Policy Guidance
In a speech today at the Berkeley Advanced Patent Law Institute, United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Makan Delrahim announced that the Department of Justice was withdra...
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...
Qualcomm’s Settlement With Taiwanese FTC Ignores Broken Promises
Last week Qualcomm reached an agreement with the Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission (TFTC), overturning the $778 million penalty the TFTC levied in October. Qualcomm promised to invest $700 million in ...
Leaping Dismissal With A Single Order, It’s FTC v. Qualcomm!
Monday, Judge Koh issued an order denying Qualcomm’s motion to dismiss in the FTC v. Qualcomm lawsuit. This is just the first step in the lawsuit, but there are some pretty important signals burie...
CCIA Files Comments to US Antitrust Regulators on Patent Troll Activity
(Cross-posted on DisCo)
Last Friday, CCIA filed its comments to the FTC/DOJ’s Public Workshop on Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) (aka patent trolls). Although antitrust authorities cannot fix...
Standard-Essential Patents in Context: Just a Small Piece of the Smartphone War Puzzle
(Cross-posted on DisCo)
There has been a recent flurry of policy and regulatory activity related to standard-essential patents (SEPs). First, Samsung announced it was dropping its requests for in...
Patents in the News 2/26
The CCIA and RIM Tell the FTC Banning Injunctions for FRAND Patents Can Make Smartphone Wars Worse
Groklaw
February 26, 2013
If the government wants to build a highway and your house is in the way of ...
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...