Category: Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC)
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Meet the PMAC’s newly appointed FRAND Guidelines Working Group
Simon Dack, the newly appointed Chair of the PMAC’s FRAND Guidelines Working Group, as well as several of its members, shared with ip fray what this means for the SEP ecosystem.
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Mediation and Arbitration as Settlement Pathways in Chinese Patent Disputes
China has no UPC Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre equivalent. Its relevant pathways are more dispersed. This article maps those pathways and explains how they may matter in Chinese patent disputes.
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UPC proposes terms for ZTE-Samsung cross-license: $640M for 5 years, $730M for 6; consistent with Chongqing, Munich; otherwise PMAC mediation
The Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division makes two settlement proposals with different contract terms and alternatively suggests mediation by the UPC’s Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre.