22/06/2021
‘Fair’ and ‘reasonable’ royalties can be viewed as a Venn diagram. They must: Reflect the value of an invention in the context in which it is […]
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17/06/2021
The Fair Standards Alliance (FSA) is an organisation that represents users, or ‘implementers’, of standardised technology. The FSA advocates the position that the non-discriminatory prong of […]
16/06/2021
At IP Europe, we believe in the open standards method of technology development. This approach entails companies from around the world contributing cutting-edge technology to open […]
16/06/2021
Open standards have worked extremely well for the development of cellular connectivity. We have progressed very quickly from the introduction of 2G in 1991 to the […]
31/03/2021
1. What is your company’s technology solution? Fractus offers antenna technologies that allow: connectivity in multiple frequency bands; integration of the antennas within the device having a […]
31/03/2021
1. What is your company’s technology solution? Energysquare, a French company founded in 2015, is developing the new wireless charging technology “Power by Contact”. Unlike inductive charging […]
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 […]
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 […]