16/11/2020
By Richard Vary, Bird & Bird Takeaway Must owners of IP rights (IPR) that may be essential to standards offer licenses of their essential IPR to each […]
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21/01/2020
Letter from Francisco Mingorance, Brussels, Belgium, 21 January 2020 In “Apple, Microsoft and BMW urge EU to stop patent trolls” (January 16), you report claims by […]
03/10/2018
A year on from the European Commission’s Communication on standard-essential patents (SEPs), published in November 2017, Monica Magnusson, vice president IPR policy at Ericsson, looks at […]
12/09/2018
The following is an excerpt from an article that appeared in World Intellectual Property Review on the 12th of September 2018. The author, Adrian Howes, is […]
16/04/2018
“Patent disputes are not a sign of illness—they are a sign of wellness,” says Bill Merritt, CEO of mobile technology research and development company InterDigital. “I […]
09/11/2017
European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO) published a position paper which provides input to the European Commission’s discussions on the licensing of standard essential […]
27/09/2017
Dr. Bertram Huber is a legal expert who personally participated in elaborating and drafting the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards […]
18/09/2017
An internet of things based on shared open standards is under threat from Silicon Valley. And EU policymakers could stop them, writes Francisco Mingorance in EurActiv.
14/09/2017
Following the launch of an SME Manifesto on ‘Driving Growth for European Innovators’ in June, a group of CEOs from some of Europe’s most innovative technology […]
15/08/2017
Below is the letter to the Financial Times editor sent by Hassan Triqui, CEO of Secure-IC, published 15 August 2017. The original is available at this […]