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Standard Essential Patents
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Non-practicing entity Wyncomm LLC claims WiFi devices infringe former AT&T patent
Just like with cellular standards, the widespread use of the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking ("WiFi") standard often makes WiFi-compliant devices easy targets for patent infringement lawsuits -- particularly suits brought…
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Delaware court says Apple does not infringe Golden Bridge W-CDMA patents
Recently Apple explained to the ITC that many of the standard-essential patents asserted by Samsung against Apple have failed under the scrutiny of litigation, resulting in a finding of non-infringement…
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InterDigital asks Delaware court to dismiss Huawei, ZTE’s FRAND counterclaims
The standard-essential patent battle between InterDigital and Chinese handset makers Huawei and ZTE rages on in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Recall that the parties are…
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A final round-up of new public interest submissions in Samsung-Apple ITC case (Inv. No. 337-TA-794)
In recent posts, we covered the briefs submitted by Samsung and Apple and the ITC Staff in response to the U.S. International Trade Commission's request for additional briefing in Inv. No.…
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Lemley, Shapiro propose “baseball-style” arbitration as solution to FRAND disputes
We recently came across a new paper written by noted scholars Mark Lemley and Carl Shapiro that we thought was worth passing along. Lemley and Shapiro have written extensively about…
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New ITC briefs filed by Apple, Samsung demonstrate fundamental dispute over standard-essential patents and meaning of FRAND
Last week, both Apple and Samsung filed their initial submissions in response to the U.S. International Trade Commission's March 13 order for additional briefing in In the Matter of Certain…
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ITC Staff: Exclusion order is an appropriate remedy for Apple infringement of Samsung SEP
This past Wednesday, April 3 was the deadline for the parties and the public to submit responses to the U.S. International Trade Commission's request for additional briefing in Inv. No.…
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Chrimar Systems’ Power-over-Ethernet claims found invalid on appeal
Chrimar Systems (also known as CMS Technologies) is a non-practicing entity that owns patents that it claims are essential to IEEE Power-over-Ethernet technology -- amendments 802.3af and 802.3at to the…
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RANDomness – Play ball!
This week brings the beginning of the 2013 season of Major League Baseball. In honor of that, here's a long-since expired baseball-related patent -- U.S. Pat. No. 3,002,234, for a "Convertible…
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More amici support Apple’s opinion of FRAND: Business Software Alliance and law professors give their views
Last week we discussed a couple of amicus briefs in the Apple-Motorola Federal Circuit appeal that addressed standard-essential patent issues. Intel supported Apple's view that injunctions should generally not be…