Posts Tagged: SEPs
Ericsson Wins, But CAFC Dodges Whether Offers Were FRAND
Earlier today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in a standard essential patent (SEP) appeal involving Ericsson and TCL Communication …
Netlist Wins ITC Exclusion Order: Will the USPTO Support It?
Several weeks ago, the International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Charles Bullock issued a Notice of Initial Final Determination recommending that certain …
‘It Is a Mess’: Recapping the U.S. Patent System’s Race Toward Uncertainty
What I tried to do for this presentation is figure out in about seven or eight minutes how I could convey to you what's really going on …
UK Supreme Court Rules on Employee Compensation for ‘Outstanding Benefit’ of Invention, Hears Arguments in High-Profile FRAND Cases
A professor is entitled to a payment of £2 million (about $2.5 million) from his former employer due to the “outstanding benefit” from his invention, the UK Supreme Court …
Tillis and Coons Nudge DOJ to Provide Revised Joint Statement on SEPs
Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), Chair and Ranking Member, respectively, of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, sent a letter on …
Patent Masters™ Agree on Recommendations to Curb Harm to SEPs and Overreach of Antitrust Law
Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) exist to identify and select the best innovations entire industries will build upon. Those contributing patented technologies are asked to provide fair, reasonable …
Standard Essential Patents: Statistics and Solutions to the Real Party in Interest Problem
As I noted in part one of my talk at the IPWatchdog Patent Masters Symposium, the validity statistics for SEPs do not look very good at first …
Standard Essential Patents: Examining and Learning from the European Approach
Standards-declared patents have been challenged in ex parte and post-grant review for years as part of enforcement efforts and other strategies, though the volume of patents declared …
Analyzing Judge Koh’s Errors in FTC v. Qualcomm: Highlights From Three Amicus Briefs
On August 30, a number of amicus briefs were filed in the FTC v. Qualcomm appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The …
Restrictive IP Policies Could Limit Innovation Opportunity
In the wake of fraudulent IP applications from foreign nations—namely China—the United States has recently enacted or called for policies that require foreign entities to …
FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson Tells Patent Masters Attendees FTC v. Qualcomm Decision ‘Scares Me’
Commissioner Christine Wilson of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) addressed the IPWatchdog Patent Masters Symposium on Tuesday, September 10, emphasizing three main points in her keynote: …
Chief Judge Randall Rader: Don’t Be Seduced by the Patent Hold-Up Misnomer
In his luncheon keynote address to attendees of IPWatchdog’s Patent Master’s Symposium: “Standard Essential Patents: Striking a Balance Between Competition and Innovation” on Tuesday, former …
Antitrust Experts Characterize FTC v. Qualcomm Decision as Mangling of Sherman Act’s Section 2
Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Professor Joshua Wright, and attorney Lindsey Edwards of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, …
Searching for Answers to the Standard Essential Patent Problem
Later this year (likely in October), the United Kingdom’s highest court will hear arguments on questions arising in two disputes concerning standard essential patents (SEPs). The …
Integrity, Quality and Secure IP Rights Are Standard-Essential
The decision came down to two technologies for detecting and correcting noise in signals transmitted over the air for 5G—one of the most fundamental features for …
