Category: Patent Policy
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BREAKING: China issues regulations countering foreign extraterritorial jurisdiction
The global ZTE v. Samsung FRAND rate-setting decision is potentially a targeted scenario.
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USPTO Director Squires announces new ex parte reexamination measure to make patent revocation harder
The U.S. patent market has split reactions over the new process, which is designed to help the USPTO “efficiently and effectively” address the recent increased volume of ex parte reexamination requests.
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USPTO Director Squires looks at PTAB IPR petitions through national security as well as economic policy (domestic manufacturing) lens
USPTO Director John A. Squires has recently issued a memorandum to PTAB users and a precedential denial of institution of an inter partes review. In either context, PTAB IPRs are put into a broader policy context.
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Colombia pushes for compulsory licensing of U.S. pharma company’s patents
Colombia’s Health Minister has revived a previous administration’s investigation into four of U.S. pharma company Gilead’s patents at the core of Hepatitis-C treatment, issuing a public interest declaration to make the licensing of such patents compulsory.
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USPTO, DOJ file 3rd joint pro-injunction brief since June in standards-RELATED but NOT undisputedly standard-ESSENTIAL patent case: next stop Wilus v. Askey?
Patent holder Collision said that its patents-in-suit were not standard-essential and Samsung did not raise a FRAND defense, but Collision later made infringement arguments that were standards-related.
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Nokia’s Vice President, IP Policy and Advocacy Head: “global policymakers recognize the importance of standards and that strong protection and enforcement of IPRs drives innovation”
“Open standards and FRAND licensing are the invisible infrastructure on which the digital economy is built,” Nokia’s Vice President and Head of IP Policy & Advocacy, Collette Rawnsley, told ip fray in an exclusive interview. “Without open standards and standard essential patents, there would be no smartphones, no connected devices, no video streaming.”
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EU Commission study on application of IPR Enforcement Directive shows no pressing problem with patent assertion entities
The European Commission has released a report on the application of the EU’s IPR Enforcement Directive throughout the bloc. There does not appear to be a pressing need to legislate.
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An interview with Manny Schecter, IBM’s former patent chief
“My biggest challenge was the constant need to educate inventors and business executives about IP and its importance for innovation,” Mr. Schecter, who served as IBM’s chief patent counsel for 14 years, told ip fray.
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Make SEPs Great Again: after President’s memo on 6G, USPTO forms SEP Working Group “to renew American leadership in technology standards”
With President Trump’s 6G memo before and the USPTO’s SEP Working Group announcement after Christmas, standards and the related patents get unprecedented political attention.
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Quantum-related patents increased fivefold in past decade, but high barriers to adoption: OECD-EPO report
While the number of international patent family applications has surged fivefold since 2014, 80% of companies in the sector do not have quantum as their main activity, and Europe faces notable challenges in commercializing its technology.