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Standard Essential Patents
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ALJ denies motion to stay InterDigital ITC case pending potential FRAND determination
Late yesterday, Administrative Law Judge Robert K. Rogers issued an order denying the motion brought by Huawei and ZTE (later joined by Nokia) to stay ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-868 pending…
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Huawei, ZTE claim that without FRAND determination, InterDigital will “perpetuate an endless cycle of ITC litigation” over standard-essential patents
Yesterday, Huawei and ZTE filed a joint reply brief in support of their respective motions to expedite determination of the terms of a FRAND license for InterDigital's standard-essential patents. The…
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Ericsson to ITC: Samsung breached its ETSI FRAND obligations for asserted 4G LTE patents (Inv. No. 337-TA-866)
On Friday, March 8, Ericsson filed the (redacted) public version of its answer to Samsung's Complaint and the Notice of Investigation in In the Matter of Certain Wireless Communications Equipment…
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ITC Staff opposes motion to stay pending FRAND determination in InterDigital Section 337 investigation (337-TA-868)
Yesterday we covered InterDigital's opposition to Huawei, Nokia, and ZTE's efforts to stay the ITC's investigation into InterDigital's latest Section 337 complaint pending a potential FRAND determination in the District…
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ITC delays Final Determination in Samsung-Apple standard-essential patent investigation until March 13
Today was the target date for the ITC's Final Determination in In the Matter of Certain Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music and Data Processing Devices, and Tablet…
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InterDigital opposes Huawei/Nokia/ZTE’s efforts to stay ITC investigation, saying motion is “based on speculation upon speculation”
Yesterday, InterDigital filed its opposition to Huawei & ZTE's motion (later joined by another respondent, Nokia) to stay Inv. No. 337-TA-868, which is the ITC's investigation into InterDigital's 3G/4G standard-essential…
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RANDomness: Of smartphone wars, SEPs, and sequestration
Over at Patent Progress, Dan O'Connor has an interesting post [caption id="attachment_1089" align="alignright" width="150"] Image courtesy of athenatechs.com[/caption] in which he addresses the recent use of standard-essential patents in the…
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Apple cites recent Japanese court ruling as evidence against standard-essential patent exclusion order (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-794)
Last week, it was reported that Apple won a decision against Samsung in Tokyo, Japan, where a judge ruled that Samsung failed to negotiate in good faith with Apple before…
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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…