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Standard Essential Patents
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Ericsson and Apple settle patent disputes
By David Long
Ericsson and Apple reportedly have settled the patent disputes between them, including those involving standard essential patents that were pending in district courts in California and Texas as well as…
Essential Patent Blog
Federal Circuit provides guidance on royalty determination for standard essential patents (CSIRO v. Cisco)
By David Long
Today, a three-judge Federal Circuit panel (Prost (author), Dyk and Hughes) issued its awaited decision in CSIRO v. Cisco that agreed-in-part and disagreed-in-part with Judge Davis' damages award based on…
China Law Vision
MOFCOM Focuses On Competition Impacts of SEPs on The Chinese Market-Review of Nokia’s Equity Acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent
By AnJie Broad
Authored by Michael Gu (michaelgu@anjielaw.com) at AnJie Law Firm Background On October 19, 2015, the Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") announced the first conditionally approved merger review case in 2015, namely the case of…
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Upcoming programs dealing with standard essential patents
By David Long
The Fall season brings not only football, changing leaves and pumpkins, but also many program opportunities on your favorite legal issues -- ours being standard essential patents. Here are some…
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Microsoft and Google resolve FRAND and other patent disputes
By David Long
Microsoft and Google announced that they have settled there global patent disputes, including the litigation underlying the FRAND dispute that gave rise to Judge Robart's first-of-its-kind decision on determining a…
China Law Insight
The Anti-monopoly Risks of Asserting Standard Essential Patents in China
By King & Wood
By Li Zhongsheng Lei Peng King&Wood Mallesons' Intellectual Property Group The nature and products of some industries, like wireless telecommunications, necessitate the incorporation of all essential patents related to the products…
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ITC finds Nokia does not infringe InterDigital patents, so does not address FRAND issues (337-TA-613)
By David Long
On Friday, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a Notice on its review of Judge Essex's decision in the InterDigital v. Nokia investigation and found that Nokia did not infringe InterDigital's…
Antitrust Alert
Ninth Circuit is the First Appeals Court to Rule on RAND/SEP Licensing
By Daniel Powers, Michael O'Shaughnessy
Introduction In a decision written by Judge Marsha S. Berzon, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appels for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a first-of-its-kind district court judgment relating…
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Ninth Circuit affirms Judge Robart’s RAND decision (Microsoft v. Motorola)
By David Long
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals issued a decision affirming Judge Robart's RAND decision in the much watched Microsoft v. Motorola case, basically ruling that the determination of a reasonable…
All About IP
Court of Justice of the European Union Provides Restrictions for Asserting Standard Essential Patents in Europe
By Ana Hadnes Bruder, Dr. Ulrich Worm
The exclusive rights conferred by a patent may be subject to limitations based on competition law. For example, patents that have been declared essential to an industry standard (so-called standard…