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Netgear brings politically charged U.S. complaint against Huawei: antitrust and racketeering allegations
Read more: Netgear brings politically charged U.S. complaint against Huawei: antitrust and racketeering allegationsNetgear has brought a U.S. antitrust and racketeering complaint that is at odds with the fact that Huawei’s inbound and outbound licensing revenues are at a level.
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SEP Regulation advocates seek to influence German and French EU Council delegations with selective economics
Read more: SEP Regulation advocates seek to influence German and French EU Council delegations with selective economicsThe Fair Standards Alliance, which represents Apple and other advocates of the devaluation of standard-essential patents, focuses on France and Germany, apparently facing resistance to its proposals.
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Supreme Court asked to clarify PTAB invalidation decisions have preclusive effect even if being appealed
Read more: Supreme Court asked to clarify PTAB invalidation decisions have preclusive effect even if being appealedThe Federal Circuit apparently believes that its own affirmance of a PTAB invalidity finding has preclusive effect (even if the losing side could still petition for rehearing or certiorari), while a final PTAB decision does not.
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No anti-antisuit injunction for Ericsson against Lenovo in Colombia while U.S. court is weighing antisuit motion
Read more: No anti-antisuit injunction for Ericsson against Lenovo in Colombia while U.S. court is weighing antisuit motionLenovo, in an attempt to remind the court of the pendency of the TRO motion, argued Ericsson was making a renewed push for a Colombian anti-antisuit injunction. But Ericsson merely appealed in a case it lost on the technical merits.
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Next example of Chinese inbound & outbound licensing: ZTE, TCL join Sisvel’s cellular IoT pool
Read more: Next example of Chinese inbound & outbound licensing: ZTE, TCL join Sisvel’s cellular IoT poolSisvel’s cellular IoT patent pool just announced the addition of three new licensors. The two Chinese companies among them are also major implementers of SEPs, which once again shows it would be a mistake to look at Chinese companies only as patent holders or exclusively as patent users.
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Transparent overleveraging of transparency argument in EU SEP Regulation context
Read more: Transparent overleveraging of transparency argument in EU SEP Regulation contextThose supporting the proposed EU regulation on standard-essential patents use three buzzwords: IoT, SMEs and transparency. This article discusses only the third one, which is overused and overemphasized.
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Avanci-Zenview announcement on day of Nokia-OPPO settlement shows again: Chinese companies license in, license out
Read more: Avanci-Zenview announcement on day of Nokia-OPPO settlement shows again: Chinese companies license in, license outAvanci yesterday announced that Shenzhen-based Zenview has taken a license to its Avanci Broadcast ATSC 3.0 standard-essential patent pool. The same day OPPO reached an agreement with Nokia on a cross-license.