California’s Governor Gavin Newsom has released an Executive
Order concerning the regulation of artificial intelligence including the
creation of a “kill switch.” The Press Release is below and includes a summary of other actions taken by the Newsom
administration and
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OxFirst Club’s 15th IP & Competition Forum at the University of Oxford and 16th IP & Competition Forum at Residenz Palace Munich to Examine Global Patent Enforcement
OxFirst Club’s 15th IP & Competition Forum will take place on 13–14 January 2027 at
the University of Oxford, followed by the 16th IP & Competition Forum on 3–4 June 2027 at the Residenz Palace in
Munich. Together,
U.S. Undersecretary and Director John A. Squires Provides Remarks on U.S. Innovation
On September 15, 2026, the Undersecretary for Intellectual
Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office John A. Squires gave
a speech titled, “Protecting U.S. IP and Tech Leadership through International
Trade Policy Tools,” at the USC Gould
Book Review: Start Up Campus: How UC Berkeley Became An Unexpected Leader in Entrepreneurship and Startups
I’ve meant to write about this book for some time, but I’ve
been chasing squirrels on other hills. I’ve
decided today to finally get it done. The
University of California, Berkeley, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council,
has published Startup Campus: How
Cyberhacking Indictment Unsealed Involving Alleged Theft of University IP
On August 18, 2026, the US Department of Justice unsealed an
indictment concerning cyberhacking campaigns conducted against universities around
the world, governmental entities and companies by an Iranian hacking
group. The press release states, in
part:
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United States Moving Forward with Privateering Against Cybercrime
On August 12, 2026, President Trump issued a Presidential
Memoranda essentially providing the groundwork for a government program sanctioning
private industry to pursue international cyber criminals engaged in
hacking. The Presidential Memoranda is
available, here. The Memoranda states,
in
FRAND licensing needs a taxonomy: valuation absent context is misvaluation
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s recent report
on SEP valuation methodologies provides a useful overview of comparable
licences, bottom-up valuation and top-down approaches. However, in my view, the
most important issue in FRAND valuation remains underexplored: the need to
distinguish
US Department of Justice Remarks Regarding IP and Global Competition
On July 8, 2026, the US Department of Justice issued a press
release containing the remarks of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Dina Kallay
at the Hudson Institute Forum for Intellectual Property. The remarks describe the US Department of
Justice’s position
Join Online: 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum The Global Patent Chess Game: International Patent Strategy in a Fragmented World Order 23–24 June 2026 | Munich & Online
The 14th IP & Competition Forum offers a series
of highly topical online sessions on the changing architecture of global patent
litigation, enforcement, licensing and competition policy.
Register for ALL ONLINE sessions here:
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Injunctions at the Centre of
FRAND commitments include no right to a platform licence
In my recent article, Are patent pool royalty rates FRAND?, I
argued that patent pool and platform rates are structurally unsuited to serve
as benchmarks for bilateral FRAND licensing. That analysis focused on pricing
(i.e. royalty rates) — specifically,