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Standard Essential Patents
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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…
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BlackBerry files amicus brief supporting availability of SEP injunctions in Fed Circuit FRAND appeal (and also gets sued by Wi-LAN for LTE patent infringement)
In a post yesterday, we discussed Nokia's amicus brief submitted "in support of neither party" in the Apple-Motorola FRAND Federal Circuit appeal (Judge Posner edition). The amicus brief recently filed…
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Nokia amicus brief urges Federal Circuit to reverse Judge Posner’s standard-essential patent rulings
Earlier this week, both Nokia and BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion) were both granted leave to file amicus briefs with the Federal Circuit in the Apple v. Motorola appeal of…
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An update on the InterDigital-Huawei/ZTE FRAND fight in Delaware: InterDigital’s reply in support of motion to dismiss FRAND claims
FRAND issues are being hashed out in a lot of jurisdictions right now. Microsoft and Motorola are warring in Washington state, Apple and Motorola are fighting at the Federal Circuit,…
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Infringement contentions based on industry standards sufficient to comply with N.D. Cal. local patent rules (France Telecom v. Marvell)
Many district courts around the country have specialized local rules that govern patent litigation, in order to assist the court and the parties to manage the myriad issues that come…