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Standard Essential Patents
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China Justice Observer
Chinese court rules to affirm jurisdiction to determine FRAND terms – China Legal News
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Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court affirms its jurisdiction over global FRAND royalty rate for SEPs for the first time. Recently in the case of OPPO v. Sharp, Shenzhen Intermediate People’s…
DigitalBusiness.Law
Shifting landscape in SEP FRAND litigation – 2021 will see hard fought disputes in China and India
The UK Supreme Court’s decision in Unwired Planet and the German Supreme Court’s decision in Sisvel v Haier have set off a chain reaction which will see hard fought FRAND…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
FCJ Reaffirmed Position on FRAND Defense
On November 20, 2020, at the request of Sisvel International Group (“Sisvel”), the Federal Court of Justice (“FCJ”) granted a preliminary injunction against Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Haier Corporation Group…
Italy Intellectual Property Blog
FRAND licensing in an Unwired world (jurisdictional issues with global FRAND determinations, component level licensing, the “ND” prong of FRAND)
[caption id="attachment_3502" align="alignleft" width="320"] © UK Supreme Court[/caption] What is the impact of the recent UK Supreme court Unwired Planet judgement? What is the current status of the component level…
Minding Your Business
Are Antitrust Claims Against Licensors of Standard Essential Patents Dead On Arrival?
If the September 2020 Continental Automotive Systems, Inc. opinion is any indicator, the answer seems to be “yes,” at least where an alleged violation of fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (“FRAND”)…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
The Federal Circuit Expressly Declares that Juries Determine the Standard-Essentiality of Patent Claims
In Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 v. TCL Commun. Tech. Holdings Ltd.,[1] the Federal Circuit definitively answered the question: “Who determines the standard-essentiality of the patent claims at issue—the court,…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Case Closed? German Federal Court of Justice Issues Groundbreaking Judgment on FRAND Rules in Sisvel v. Haier
Recent Supreme Court decisions have added clarity to the interpretation of the law of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) licensing rules in Europe. On 5…
IP Intelligence
Landmark UK Supreme Court Decision Grants UK Courts Power to Set the Global Royalty Rate for Standard Essential Patents
On Aug. 26, 2020, the United Kingdom Supreme Court issued a decision in Unwired Planet International Ltd & Anor v Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd & Anor [2020] UKSC 37…
Technology Law Dispatch
UK Supreme Court hands down another FRAND decision
By Marianne Schaffner, Jonathan Radcliffe
FRAND issues are at the heart of the most significant patent cases in Europe (in the UK, Germany and France – please see our previous alert here). After the Nokia…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd and another
2020, the UK Supreme Court issued its judgment in a standard-essential patent (SEP) dispute between Huawei and Unwired Planet (see full alert memorandum). Unwired Planet is a patent assertion entity…