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Standard Essential Patents
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Antitrust Alert
FTC Secures Partial Victory Requiring SEP Holder to License to All Comers in Antitrust Case
By Stefan M. Meisner, Lisa A. Peterson
Recently, a federal district court in California granted partial summary judgment for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an important intellectual property and antitrust case involving standard essential patents…
Antitrust Alert
THE LATEST: DOJ and FTC Take Divergent Positions on Intellectual Property Issue
By Matt Evola
In testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Chairman Joseph Simons from the US Federal Trade Commission…
Italy Intellectual Property Blog
Unwired Planet upheld on appeal – a few comments on the spot
As all FRAND aficionados should already know, with a judgment handed down yesterday the Court of Appeal of England and Wales upheld Birss J's first instance decision in Unwired Planet…
Chicago IP Litigation
John Marshall CLE – Standard Essential Patents
John Marshall is hosting a seminar on October 6, 2018 from 9:00am until 4:30pm CT on a hot and growing topic in US patent law – Standard Essential Patents. Register…
Essential Patent Blog
Jury awards running royalty for willfully infringed SEPs subject to FRAND commitment (Optis v. Huawei)
By David Long
A jury recently found that Huawei willfully infringed four patents owned by PanOptis alleged to be essential to mobile cellular standards and subject to a FRAND commitment as well as…
Essential Patent Blog
Judge Mitchell rules there are factual issues whether patent is “essential” to a standard (Cellular Eqpt v. ZTE)
By David Long
Magistrate Judge K. Nicole Mitchell of the Eastern District of Texas recently denied patent owner Cellular Communications Equipment LLC ("Cellular" or "CCE") motion for summary judgment that its asserted patents were…
China Law Insight
Guangdong High People’s Court Issued a Guideline for Trial of SEP Disputes
By King & Wood
作者：倪振华 金杜律师事务所知识产权部 Guangdong High People’s Court recently issued a “Working Guideline of Guangdong High People's Court on the Trial of Standard Essential Patent Dispute Cases (for trial implementation)” (hereinafter referred…
Essential Patent Blog
Judge Orrick enjoins Huawei from enforcing injunction for infringing SEPs issued by China’s Shenzhen court (Huawei v. Samsung)
By David Long
Last week, Judge Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an Order that enjoins Huawei from enforcing an injunction on Chinese standard essential patents (SEPs)…
Competition Law
Standard Essential Patents – The Irony of Standardization
* This piece was first published in the December 2017 issue of the Practical Lawyer (2017) PL (Comp. L) Dec 76 This century is continually being marked by the convergence…
Essential Patent Blog
ALJ Lord dismisses SEP licensing-based patent misuse defenses (ITC Inv. No. 1081, Philips v. Feit Electric)
By David Long
Administrative Law Judg (ALJ) Lord at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently issued an Order striking patent misuse claims against Philips Lighting (Philips) raised by WAC Lighting and other respondents…