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RAND Licensing
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Motorola tells Fed Circuit that Microsoft-Motorola RAND opinion supports its appeal of Judge Posner decision (Apple v. Motorola)
A couple weeks ago, Apple directed the Federal Circuit's attention to the Microsoft-Motorola RAND-setting opinion. Apple claimed that in a variety of ways, Judge Robart's decision supported Apple's arguments on…
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Realtek draws ITC’s attention to recent N.D. Cal. order & preliminary injunction (Inv. No. 337-TA-837) — and Apple does too
Earlier this week, we discussed N.D. Cal. Judge Ronald Whyte's order granting partial summary judgment and issuing a preliminary injunction in a Realtek v. LSI district court case. As we explained…
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District court judge issues order enjoining enforcement of ITC exclusion order pending judicial RAND determination — but does it matter? (Realtek v. LSI/Agere)
While much of the focus on standard-essential patent litigation issues has been focused on Microsoft-Motorola, Apple-Samsung, and the InterDigital cases, these are far from the only cases dealing with SEP…
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Microsoft-Motorola trial “phase two” set for August 26, 2013 — and it will be a jury trial
A couple months ago, Microsoft asked Judge James L. Robart to confirm that the second phase of the Microsoft-Motorola RAND breach of contract trial -- in which the actual breach…
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Court dismisses USB-related antitrust and RAND licensing claims brought against Foxconn (Lotes v. Hon Hai)
A few months ago, we took note of a dispute in the Southern District of New York between two foreign makers of Universal Serial Bus (USB) products -- Lotes and…
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Motorola tells Federal Circuit that its prior SEP licenses were not the result of hold-up, and that injunctions must be available against “intransigent infringers” of FRAND patents
Earlier this week, we noted that Apple directed the Federal Circuit's attention to Judge Robart's Microsoft-Motorola decision in Apple-Motorola "Posner Appeal." (For a recap of the parties' FRAND-related appellate briefing…
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Apple cites Judge Robart’s Microsoft-Motorola decision as supplemental FRAND authority in Fed Circuit, ITC cases
As many commentators have noted, Judge Robart's Microsoft-Motorola decision may provide a roadmap to courts and parties in other FRAND disputes. Not surprisingly, Apple recently brought the decision to the…
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Scope of IEEE RAND obligations a hotly-contested issue in Innovatio IP Ventures WiFi patent litigation
As many of you are aware, a non-practicing entity named Innovatio IP Ventures has been engaged in a widespread licensing and litigation campaign over WiFi-related patents that were formerly owned…
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Nokia opposes InterDigital’s motion to dismiss FRAND counterclaims
If all of these InterDigital-related FRAND issues seem hard to keep track of, they are -- InterDigital is currently suing Huawei, Nokia, Samsung, and ZTE all in a single ITC…
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Entropic files patent infringement complaint against ViXS Systems over MoCA-essential home entertainment networking patents
Yesterday Entropic Communications, a designer and maker of semiconductors and "system-on-a-chip" (SoC) technology, filed a patent infringement action against fellow SoC maker ViXS Systems in district court in the Southern…