Tag: SEP
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...
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...