Posts Tagged: standard setting organizations
Virtual SEP 2021 Day One: Panelists Weigh in on the State of the SEP Ecosystem and More
tandard Setting Organizations (SSOs) exist as a mechanism for industry innovators to work together to collectively identify and select the best and most promising innovations that will …
Transparency in 3G/4G/5G FRAND Licensing and ETSI’s IPR Database
A disturbing trend has recently emerged whereby an alleged lack of transparency associated with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) intellectual property rights database (IPR Database) is …
Determining Essentiality: An Analysis of SEPs and Tips to Avoid Over-Declaration
A close examination of SEP databases reveals that a large number of patents that have been declared SEPs are not essential.... Patent owners are obliged to declare …
Understanding Damages Calculation in SEP Litigation
Courts around the world have determined appropriate methodologies for calculating damages on standard essential patents (SEPs) for which patent holders have made an assurance to license on …
Clearing Up Confusion on SEPs: A Line-by-Line Response to a Problematic Essay
I recently became frustrated after reading an essay in the AIPLA newsletter by an attorney with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP on the topic of the new USPTO-DOJ-NIST …
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 …
The IEEE IPR Policy Amendments: Strategic Behavior and Feedback Loops
Speaking at IPWatchdog's Patent Master's Symposium today, Professor Kristen Osenga of The University of Richmond School of Law gave attendees a glimpse of her upcoming paper examining …
Standard Essential Patents: The Myths and Realities of Standard Implementation
Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) are patents that are unavoidable for the implementation of a standardized technology. They represent core, pioneering innovation that entire industries will build upon. …
Koh rules Qualcomm is Obligated to License SEPs to Competitors
Qualcomm was not refusing to abide by its agreed to promises to license SEPs as required by the SSOs, as alleged by the FTC. Instead, Qualcomm wasn't …
Rejection of proposal did not obviate requirement to disclose inventions to standard setting body
The Federal Circuit, however, found the district court’s enforceability finding to be unsupported by evidence. The rejection of Nokia’s proposal did not obviate Nokia’s …
DOJ Antitrust Chief Raises Standard Setting Concerns
Increasingly, Delrahim's speeches are moving past where he began in his USC speech in November 2017, discussing this being the appropriate time to now have a discussion about …
The New Era of Antitrust Law and Policy in Standards: Embracing Evidence Based Policy-making
On November 10, 2017, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) new top antitrust enforcer, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Makan Delrahim, delivered a powerful speech on antitrust law and …
Emotions in the debate on royalty payments for the use of standards
The debate on royalty payments for standard essential patents has a surprisingly emotional, sometimes even hostile, undertone. Companies selling standards-based products have an obvious commercial interest in …
A micro-economic estimate of the reasonable royalty rate for standard essential patents
The debate on RAND terms and conditions is mostly about the reasonability of the royalty rate, less about non-discriminatory part. So, what is a “reasonable rate”? Companies …
InterDigital’s Story: Fostering Industry Solutions and Profiting from its Growth
InterDigital CEO William Merritt writes: "It’s no secret that the regulatory environment is challenging for companies that license patents – in our case, patents that are deemed …
