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RAND Licensing
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Motorola asks Washington court to limit Microsoft’s theories of damages for potential RAND breach
In the aftermath of last week's Microsoft-Motorola RAND-setting opinion, the case will now to proceed toward an August trial date. At this trial -- if it gets that far -- either Judge…
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RANDomness – Much ado about Microsoft-Motorola
Over the last several days, a lot of ink (and pixels?) have been spilled about Judge James L. Robart's April 25 Microsoft v. Motorola RAND royalty-setting opinion. Here at the Essential…
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An annotated version of Judge Robart’s Microsoft-Motorola RAND-royalty-setting order
By now many of you have at least skimmed through Judge James L. Robart's 207-page order setting RAND royalty terms for an 802.11- and H.264-essential patent license agreement between Motorola…
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Microsoft-Motorola follow-up: A look at Judge Robart’s modified Georgia-Pacific RAND methodology
As we noted yesterday, Judge James L. Robart's groundbreaking opinion in the Microsoft v. Motorola breach of contract case was the first to set RAND licensing terms for a standard-essential…
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Microsoft-Motorola Update: Washington court sets RAND royalty for Motorola 802.11 and H.264 patent portfolios
Today, Judge James L. Robart issued the non-confidential version of his Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in Microsoft Corp. v. Motorola, Inc., No. 10-cv-1823 (W.D. Wash.). This marks…
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Washington court sets RAND terms for Motorola’s standard-essential patents (but the public will have to wait a week to see them)
Big news today in the Microsoft-Motorola RAND breach of contract dispute taking place before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. After the November 2012 bench trial and significant…
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Public comments on FTC/DOJ Patent Assertion Entity Workshop include worries that PAEs may “game the system” of standard-setting and RAND licensing
Back in December 2012, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice held a joint workshop to explore the impact that patent assertion entities (PAEs -- or non-practicing entities/NPEs)…
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Microsoft, Motorola submit final arguments to Washington court on the relevance and effects of Google-MPEG LA AVC/H.264 agreement to a Microsoft-Motorola RAND license
A couple of weeks ago, we noted a peculiar minute order emanating from Judge James L. Robart's courtroom in the Microsoft-Motorola RAND case. Based on his review of Google's AVC/H.264…
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InterDigital calls Huawei/ZTE’s requests for expedited FRAND determinations “impractical” and “improper”
Earlier this week we noted that Huawei and ZTE have asked the ITC to stay its investigation into InterDigital's complaint of 3G/4G standard-essential patent infringement. This was done in part because…
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Motorola, Apple dispute relevance of recent Supreme Court case to FRAND jurisdictional dispute
A quick update for those interested in the Apple-Motorola Federal Circuit FRAND appeal: Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Gunn v. Minton, where the Court determined…