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Standard Essential Patents
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Cleary Antitrust Watch
U.S. & UK Consult on Standard Essential Patents, Injunctions, FRAND Licensing, and Antitrust
By Daniel P. Culley, Jessica Hollis, Maurits Dolmans
The area of standards, and licensing of Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”) on “fair reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (“FRAND”) is alive as ever. There are developments in three jurisdictions: On December…
China Law Vision
All FRANDS On Deck: Asserting Jurisdiction Over Global SEP Disputes in China, UK
By Hao Zhan, Ying Song, Hannibal El-Mohtar, Yuhui Yang
Standard-Essential Patents ("SEPs") are patents which protect technology essential to compatibility with technical industry standards. To avoid abuse by patent holders, SEPs are typically required to be licensed on Fair…
China Justice Observer
China’s Supreme Court Confirms Jurisdiction over SEP Global Rates
By Publisher
On 19 Aug. 2021, the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) rendered the final ruling of jurisdiction challenge over standard essential patent (SEP) licensing disputes in Sharp Corp.…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Expert Report Proffered by a Party in a Prior Case Is Not Automatically a “Party Admission” for Purposes of Fed. R. Evid. 801(d)(2)(C), Holds Fifth Circuit
In HTC Corp. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, No. 19-40566 (5th Cir. Aug. 31, 2021), the Fifth Circuit affirms exclusion of an expert report from a valuation expert who the defendant…
Essential Patent Blog
Fifth Circuit Affirms That Ericsson’s Offers to HTC Complied With ETSI FRAND Commitment (HTC v. Ericsson)
By David Long
Today, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit affirmed the judgment that Ericsson's licensing offers to HTC on 2G, 3G and 4G standard essential patents (SEPs) based on the mobile…
China Justice Observer
China's Judge Talks about Anti-Suit Injunctions in SEP Litigation
By Publisher
Recently, the judge who issued the second anti-suit injunction in China wrote an article on the anti-suit injunctions in the standard essential patent (SEP) litigation. In April 2021, Judge Zhao…
China Justice Observer
Chinese Court Confirms Its Jurisdiction over Global Rates for Standard Essential Patents For the First Time
By Publisher
In October 2020, a court in Shenzhen, China, issued a decision in Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Co Ltd v. Sharp Corp. No. (2020), confirming that it had jurisdiction to…
China Justice Observer
Shenzhen Court Issues ‘Anti-suit’ Injunction in ZTE and Conversant SEP Licensing Dispute
By Publisher
In September 2020, a conduct preservation order as equivalent to anti-suit injunctions was issued by a Shenzhen court in ZTE v. Conversant (2018), restraining Conversant from applying to the…
Italy Intellectual Property Blog
Breaking News: Nokia v. Daimler SEP dispute (and CJEU referral) settled
It seems that the long-awaited clarification by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on a number of open issues related to standard essential patent (SEPs) will have…
Italy Intellectual Property Blog
‘SEPs Expert Group Report’ published – a preliminary helicopter view
The long awaited ‘SEPs Expert Group report’ has been published on Wednesday 10 February on the European Commission’s website (available here). As readers will recall (see here for further details…