2022-07-01 09:34
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2022-07-01 09:34
I don’t mean to engage in media bashing, especially not in connection with mobile app stores where press coverage has really informed many people of the serious issues affecting my fel… Read More
2022-06-30 14:41
Don’t miss the deadline!Picture from here
As a reminder to our readers, the deadline for submissions to the 3rd Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law is just… Read More
2022-06-30 08:03
Automotive supplier Continental’s unreasonableness is getting worse by the day.
I started the headline of yesterday’s Continental v. Avanci et al. post by describing Conti as imp… Read More
2022-06-29 09:27
The Supreme Court denies petitions for writ of certiorari without stating the reasons. It has more important things to do. In the Apple v. Qualcomm case–where the Federal Circuit held… Read More
2022-06-29 06:25
The tireless, tiresome tire maker is still in a state of denial and filed a motion yesterday with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for a 30-day extension of time to f… Read More
2022-06-28 14:49
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post on Apple’s browser monopoly abuse, Anti-innovative effects of Apple’s Orwellian prohibition of alternative browser engines finally b… Read More
2022-06-28 09:44
We’re pleased to bring our readers Part 2 of the series by Surabhi Pande and Devvrat Joshi looking at the proposed draft amendments to the IT Rules, 2021. The first part looked at two… Read More
2022-06-28 09:44
There was a time when Apple was an aggressive but mostly very reasonable litigant, while Apple’s adversaries took extreme positions. It was the time when Qualcomm was seeking a prelim… Read More
2022-06-27 17:03
We’re pleased to bring our readers a 2 part guest post series by Surabhi Pande and Devvrat Joshi, on the recently proposed draft amendments to the IT Rules, 2021 (which were released o… Read More
2022-06-27 17:03
Today I wish to draw some additional attention to long-time web browser developer Alex Russell’s new post, Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice. On other recent occasions I&rsq&hell…Read More
2022-06-27 10:08
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Eashan Ghosh on his second book, recently released titled “The Finished Article: Essays on Indian Designs Law”. Eashan has bee… Read More
2022-06-25 17:18
In the Eastern District of Texas, Apple already has a federal judge “puzzled by [its] hot-then-cold positions.” And its lobbyists advocating the devaluation of SEPs and opposing… Read More
2022-06-25 13:15
From time to time it’s unfortunately necessary to expose astroturfers. As someone who has published apps, and has a new one (a productivity app) in the works, the kind of astroturfing… Read More
2022-06-25 03:19
We are very pleased to announce that Drew Hirshfeld will be joining SLW on June 27 as a Principal. Drew has been a long-tenured employee of the United States Patent and T… Read More
2022-06-23 11:40
Yesterday, Chief Administrative Law Judge Clark S. Cheney of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC, or just ITC) gave notice that the investigation of Ericsson’s comp… Read More
2022-06-22 22:30
To save me a lot of typing, please read my post of January 10, 2022, summarizing the first Panel’s holding in Novartis Pharmaceutical v Accord Healthcare, Inc., 21 F.4th 1362 (Fed. Cir… Read More
2022-06-22 16:53
There has been some confusion out there, but thanks to canonical information from the Munich I Regional Court’s press office I’m able to report that 262 patent infringement… Read More
2022-06-22 14:02
The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) recently released an interesting report titled ‘Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines’. This report comes at an opportune mo… Read More
2022-06-22 10:18
Here’s some Ericsson v. Apple news again (the previous development there was that Ericsson filed infringement actions against Apple in the UK).
Ever since the 2013 Presidential veto in… Read More
2022-06-21 20:23
BREAKING NEWS
At the beginning of last week, the Fifth Circuit panel that threw out Continental’s appeal of the dismissal of its antitrust complaint against Avanci and some of its lice… Read More
2022-06-21 15:54
There was a time when major Big Tech antitrust investigations were announced once every few years; then maybe a couple of times a year; and now it feels like hardly a week goes by without so… Read More
2022-06-21 12:18
Nokia has obtained a first patent injunction against OPPO and its OnePlus premium brand. At 10:30 AM local time, the Mannheim Regional Court’s Second Civil Chamber (Presiding Judge: Dr… Read More
2022-06-20 19:08
This is not exactly breaking news, and other commentators have discussed it, but I think that the Solicitor General’s Amicus Brief urging the Supreme Court to grant cert. in American A… Read More
2022-06-20 10:49
UK court records show a couple of Ericsson v. Apple filings: on June 6, Ericsson–represented by the law firm of Taylor Wessing, which has offices in numerous European countries (and be… Read More
2022-06-19 17:03
The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that t… Read More
2022-06-19 12:10
Justice Pratibha Singh of the Delhi High Court, vide judgment dated 3 June 2022 in Vishal Pipes Limited v. Bhavya Pipe Industry, held that all the IPR disputes, irrespective of their valuat… Read More
2022-06-18 10:11
The most important court ruling of the week–at least for the tech sector, if not beyond–was Qualcomm’s successful appeal of a European Commission antitrust decision. The Sa… Read More
2022-06-17 15:56
After 2 long years and the whole hubbub that the 12th Ministerial Conference was, (see here here and here) WTO has finally come up with the Draft Ministerial Decision On The TRIPS Agreement… Read More
2022-06-17 13:08
Viahart LLC v. Partnerships & Unincorporated Assocs. identified on schedule A, No. 19 C 8181, Slip Op. (N.D. I.. Apr. 4, 2022) (Alonso, J.).
Judge Alonso denied plaintiff Viahart’s… Read More
2022-06-17 13:04
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As reported, Revlon, the iconic cosmetics brand, has filed for bankruptcy. The New-York based cosmetics company reportedly struggled due to competition from other establish… Read More
2022-06-17 13:04
IAM was first to report (paywalled) on an announcement I’ve now found on Nordic Semiconductor’s website, according to which Huawei has extended to Nordic Semiconductor a componen… Read More
2022-06-16 10:02
There’s nothing wrong with Apple making the iPhone and the iPad so attractive that customers will pay those premium prices. I’d still prefer Android even if I wouldn’t save… Read More
2022-06-15 20:58
Given the IP-savvy audience of this blog, I don’t need to stress the pivotal role of claim construction in patent infringement cases. With respect to claim construction, Ericsson is on… Read More
2022-06-15 15:24
A few years ago, Qualcomm was being investigated and fined by multiple antitrust authorities around the globe–possibly in more jurisdictions than any tech company before it, but Apple… Read More
2022-06-15 10:27
In an official statement at the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference, that was both blunt and sharply worded, India’s Union Minister Piyush Goyal quite openly called out the developed natio… Read More
2022-06-15 10:27
Apple has the resources to defend itself against ever more antitrust investigations around the globe, but at some point it’s simply going to run out of management bandwidth and, even p… Read More
2022-06-15 10:27
This is my second post on submissions made by stakeholders to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Internal Market (DG GROW) in response to its consultation regarding… Read More
2022-06-14 20:57
In its litigation with Avanci and some of its licensors (most notably Nokia) over the availability of component-level licenses to standard-essential patents (SEPs), Continental keeps going i… Read More
2022-06-14 13:01
Patent licensing firm Optis, which is part of a group that also includes PanOptis and Unwired Planet, is inching closer to the major liquidity moment that a royalty payment (including back-r… Read More
2022-06-13 16:59
Rebel Hospitality LLC v. Rebel Hospitality LLC, No. 21-cv-05132, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Mar. 16, 2022) (Guzman, J.).
Judge Guzman granted defendant Rebel Hospitality DE’s Fed. R.Civ. P. 1… Read More
2022-06-13 16:59
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While the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) released its much-awaited report on a sparkling new data protection legislation late last year, as reported, the bill may be… Read More
2022-06-13 16:59
Continental continues to keep U.S. courts busy with its attempts to force companies like Nokia to extend them an exhaustive component-level license to standard-essential patents (SEPs). It w… Read More
2022-06-13 16:59
Right after the first Ericsson v. Apple patent infringement cases of the current series were filed, I expected Apple to face an “Epicsson” dilemma because Apple’s positions… Read More
2022-06-13 16:59
On Thursday, Continental had the chuzpe to file a proposed reply brief in support of its petition for rehearing en banc (full-court review) of the dismissal of its “antitrust” ca… Read More
2022-06-12 23:32
The Dutch antitrust watchdog’s investigation of Apple’s in-app payment rules further to a complaint by Match Group (best known for Tinder) has been a total failure. The Autoritei… Read More
2022-06-12 14:09
Dr VRR Ayyar’s book, “Present at Creation: The Making of Internet Treaties (1996)”, published in 2021
We’re pleased to bring you a post by Prashant reflecting on a… Read More
2022-06-11 09:53
We’re pleased to inform you that the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University (NLU), Delhi is inviting applications for Community Engagement and Strategic Develop… Read More
2022-06-10 21:10
Benefit Cosmetics LLC, No. 20-cv-02552, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Mar. 28, 2022) (Wood, J.).
Judge Wood denied defendant Oxygen Ocean’s motion to set aside the parties’ settlement agre… Read More
2022-06-10 21:10
We’re pleased to bring you a guest post with an update on the Covid-19 TRIPS waiver proposal, from Sreenath Namboodiri. You can read the previous posts we’ve had on the TRIPS Wai… Read More
2022-06-10 21:10
For the most part, this has been a bad week for implementers of standard-essential patents (SEPs) because three U.S. government agencies (DOJ, USPTO, NIST) merely did away with a Trump-era p… Read More
2022-06-10 21:10
Automotive supplier Continental should finally come to terms with the strategic mistakes it has made all throughout its antitrust campaign against Avanci and several of its licensors (Nokia… Read More
2022-06-09 13:58
Art Akiane LLC v. Art & Soulworks LLC, No. 19-cv-02952, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Sep. 16, 2021) (Chang, J.).
Judge Chang ruled on the parties’ choice of law dispute between Colorado and… Read More
2022-06-09 13:55
Sometimes a coincidence is about as timely as coordination would have been. About a week before Huawei’s major IP event that took place earlier today, the German Patent and Trademark O… Read More
2022-06-09 13:55
Almost mid-way into President Joe Biden’s term, his Administration is unable to take clear and official positions on the antitrust aspects of standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing… Read More
2022-06-09 13:55
Chief Judge Rodney S. Gilstrap of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is presiding over two Ericsson-Apple cases (which the parties have thus far been unable t… Read More
2022-06-09 13:55
It’s a very significant setback for implementers of standard-essential patents (SEPs) that three U.S. government agencies (DOJ, USPTO, NIST) neither agreed on a new SEP policy nor rein… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CT, the P. Michael Mahoney Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illin… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
On Friday, June 3, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. CT, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) will hold a panel disc… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
H-D U.S.A., LLC v. The Partnerships and Unincorporated Assocs. Identified on Schedule “A,” No. 21 C 3581, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Sep. 24, 2021) (Alonso, J.).
Judge Alonso granted pl… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
Peng v. The Partnerships and Unincorporated Assocs. Identified on Schedule “A,” No. 21 C 1344, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Sep. 14, 2021) (Dow, J.).
Judge Dow converted the previously en… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
On February 9, 2022 from 12-1pm CT, the IPLAC U.S. Patents Committee is hosting a virtual discussion on how to protect new software technologies using web and desktop interfaces. The e… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) Creator of the Year Committee is seeking nominations for its 2022 Creator of the Year Award. The Award honors those who hav… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. CT, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) Agents Committee is hosting a virtual event focusing on a new professi… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
Northern District of Illinois Moving to NextGen CM/ECF System
On May 2, 2022, the Northern District is slated to update its CM/ECF system to the NextGen CM/ECF. The Northern District’s… Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. CT, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (“IPLAC”) and the Illinois Intellectual Property Alliance (&ldquo&hell…Read More
2022-06-08 10:44
On Thursday, April 28, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. CT, the IPLAC’s Copyright Committee is hosting a presentation by musicologist Judith Finell on navigating the relationship betw… Read More
2022-06-07 21:05
The ink is barely dry on the license agreement between the Avanci patent pool and Ford Motor Company, and I’ve just discovered what could be the beginning of two other waves of standar… Read More
2022-06-07 21:05
After a Dusseldorf complaint against Samsung over Android’s prediction of remaining battery runtime and a couple of Munich standard-essential patent (SEP) complaints against car makers… Read More
2022-06-07 21:05
Yesterday, the German Patent & Trademark Office (Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt; DPMA) issued a press release on its 2021 annual report, and the headline translates as follows:
“C… Read More
2022-06-07 21:05
This post is closely related to the final part of the previous post, European and German patent stats confirm China has taken lead over U.S. in digital communications patent filings: Huawei… Read More
2022-06-01 10:57
Tomorrow (Tuesday, May 31) the Mannheim Regional Court’s Second Civil Chamber (Presiding Judge: Dr. Holger Kircher) will hold its second Nokia v. OPPO trial. As I already reported last… Read More
2022-06-01 10:57
Precisely four weeks after Avanci announced a 4G standard-essential patent (SEP) license agreement with General Motors, the patent pool firm has just announced a license deal with Ford. Both… Read More
2022-06-01 10:57
This blog has been reporting on patent infringement allegations targeting Android–typically lawsuits against Android device makers–since 2010. Some of them turned out meritorious… Read More
2022-05-26 20:33
The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP t… Read More
2022-05-26 20:33
We’re pleased to bring you a guest post on a recent Supreme Court order where certain offences under the Copyright Act were held to be cognizable and non-bailable. The post is co-autho… Read More
2022-05-26 20:33
We’re pleased to bring you a guest post by our former blogger Aparajita Lath. Aparajita is a lawyer based in Bangalore. She works in a law firm that advises technology companies. The v… Read More
2022-05-26 20:32
Subsequently to this post, I’ll report on the latest injunction that standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing firm VoiceAge EVS has obtained against smartphone maker HMD (Nokia tradem… Read More
2022-05-26 20:32
At a time when policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic are weighing SEP policy statements and initiatives, this post here is going to tell a tale of caution. The TL;DR version is that no… Read More
2022-05-26 20:32
In the Epic Games v. Apple antitrust appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Fortnite maker (which obtained a significant concession from Google last week… Read More
2022-05-22 05:51
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Some ten years ago, post Prof. Basheer’s intervention before the Supreme Court in the Novartis case, Prashant had commented “Academics in India are usually cloi… Read More
2022-05-22 05:51
We’re pleased to bring to you this guest post by our former blogger Aparajita Lath. Aparajita is a lawyer based in Bangalore. She works in a law firm that advises technology companies… Read More
2022-05-22 05:51
In retrospect, Nokia’s standard-essential patent (SEP) dispute with Daimler was just a distraction, but its net effect is that car-level SEP licensing has won. In the end, even Daimler… Read More
2022-05-22 05:51
It’s hard to think of a standard-essential patent (SEP) holder I trust less to be fair than Philips. Before Philips settled with Xiaomi, there were clear signs of Philips just seeking… Read More
2022-05-22 05:51
This morning, the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) held a first hearing in case no. 7 O 14390/21, Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp.. Ltd. v. nokia solutions… Read More
2022-05-22 05:51
BREAKING NEWS
It sometimes appears that the “A” in “Apple” means “adamant” (about certain principles as well as non-principled pretexts). By comparison, G… Read More
2022-05-22 05:51
In the second half of 2020, Daimler was slapped with four German standard-essential patent (SEP) injunctions with only 11 weeks between the first and the fourth. Three of them came down in M… Read More
2022-05-18 09:00
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Some ten years ago, post Prof. Basheer’s intervention before the Supreme Court in the Novartis case, Prashant had commented “Academics in India are usually cloi… Read More
2022-05-18 09:00
KPN, the telecommunications carrier formerly owned by the Kingdom of the Netherlands (long-form name: Koninklijke KPN N.V.), has recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Munich agains… Read More
2022-05-14 23:58
A photograph of Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer
On the occasion of our founder Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer’s 46th birth anniversary today, we at SpicyIP are proud to announce the third… Read More
2022-05-14 23:58
Early last week, largely the same Apple-led crowd that is behind the “Save Our Standards” campaign (whose deceptive lobbying I’ve recently called out) sent a letter to Soph… Read More
2022-05-14 23:58
In March, the United States Department of Justice brought a motion to sanction Google for misuse of the attorney-client privilege, and to compel it to produce documents withheld under such p… Read More
2022-05-14 23:58
Whether in a policy context like the IEEE’s standard-essential patent (SEP) policy or in litigation, I often find that Apple will say anything that it believes may advance its agenda&n&hell…Read More
2022-05-14 23:58
On Thursday, Judge James Donato of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (San Francisco Division) held a case management hearing that he scheduled at the s… Read More
2022-05-11 21:33
We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Eashan Ghosh on the treatment of prosecution history in trade mark infringement proceedings. Eashan has been practicing as an intellectual… Read More
2022-05-11 21:33
We’re pleased to inform you that Wadhwa Law Chambers headed by Kapil Wadhwa is looking to recruit three Associates for their IP Litigation and IP Prosecution teams. For further de… Read More
2022-05-11 21:33
Yesterday (Monday), dating app provider Match Group (known for Tinder and other services) filed an antitrust complaint in the Northern District of California against a policy change by Googl… Read More
2022-05-11 21:33
Market size is one of several factors attracting patentees to Germany. However, the direct economic impact of a patent injunction is a function of the revenues and profits a party is actuall… Read More
2022-05-11 21:33
The Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) has informed me of a pair of patent infringement cases by U.S.-based patent licensing firm K.Mizra against Pokémon GO maker Ni… Read More
2022-05-08 18:57
The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP t… Read More
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