26/08/2021
The widespread use of hold-out as a business strategy is a growing problem. hold-out strategies are employed based on deliberate corporate calculations as to the potential […]
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29/07/2021
Jonathan M. Barnett, Professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and Contributor at Forum for Intellectual Property, Hudson Institute, analyses in his […]
29/07/2021
When looking at recent case law of courts in the EU involving SEPs, one cannot help noticing that an increasing number of cases involve parties that […]
22/07/2021
ACT | The App Association has long positioned itself as representing the interest of the makers of apps. It claims to represent more than 5,000 app […]
20/07/2021
IP Europe co-hosted an informal webinar on World IP Day on 26 April 2021 featuring innovative SMEs from the telecommunications, wireless charging technology, and IOT sectors. The event […]
15/07/2021
In May 2021, two similar standards-related pieces of legislation were introduced in the U.S. Senate and discussed in committee. The unnamed bills were proposed by Sen. Chris […]
13/07/2021
There’s an old adage that “there is no such thing as a free lunch” meaning that is impossible to get something for nothing. However, when it comes […]
08/07/2021
As noted in an earlier post, recently IAM Magazine published an article by Ruud Peters and Nikolaus Thumm entitled “A six-point plan for a new approach to assessing […]
06/07/2021
Recently, IAM Magazine published an article by Ruud Peters and Nikolaus Thumm entitled “A six-point plan for a new approach to assessing SEP essentiality”. The authors proposed six core […]
01/07/2021
The FSA, ACT, and several other Big Tech associations have sent a letter and position paper to the Biden Administration’s new Attorney General, Merrick Garland. They advance […]