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RAND damages discovery dispute continues – Microsoft says Motorola’s brief is a pretext to dismiss damages claim
Late Friday, Microsoft responded to the letter brief filed by Motorola last week in the parties' RAND breach of contract case. In its responsive letter brief [LINK], Microsoft disputes Motorola's…
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European Commission sends preliminary Statement of Objections to Motorola, finding potential SEP-related antitrust violation
We generally focus on U.S.-specific standard-essential patent issues here at the Essential Patent Blog, but often there are some international developments that are worth noting. Today brings us one of…
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Which appeals court has appellate jurisdiction over the Microsoft-Motorola RAND case?
The district court in the Microsoft-Motorola RAND breach of contract case has already decided some unique issues of first impression, and will take on some more in the next phase…
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Federal Circuit denies Motorola’s motion to dismiss or transfer Apple FRAND appeal to 7th Circuit…for now
We've got an update from the Apple-Motorola Federal Circuit FRAND jurisdictional dispute. Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Motorola's motion to dismiss Apple's FRAND appeal…
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Innovatio argues that WiFi Suppliers misinterpret IEEE definition of “essentiality,” scope of RAND obligations
Last week we covered the dispute between Innovatio IP Ventures and Cisco, Motorola Solutions, and NETGEAR (the "WiFi Suppliers") over the essentiality and non-essentiality of various 802.11-related patent claims asserted…
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The Patent Forest
Judge Robart’s RAND decision in the Microsoft v. Motorola case is receiving well-warranted attention, and for good reason. Of course, we here at the Essential Patent Blog find this developing…
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Western District of Washington Sets FRAND Royalty Rates and Range for SEPs
by Nick Grimmer and Stefan Meisner Last week in Microsoft v. Motorola, the U.S. District Court Western District of Washington became the first U.S. court to set fair, reasonable, and…
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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…