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Chinese courts can now set SEP rates for foreign patent pools

Landmark Supreme People’s Court decision is a win for TCL in long-running dispute against Access Advance

27 June 2024

Europe’s communications technology leadership at stake 

Saturday Opinion: Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer Mobile Devices Susanna Martikainen says it is not too late to make crucial changes to the SEP regulation to limit adverse consequences

01 June 2024

Lenovo denied UK injunction against Ericsson as tactical gambit falls flat

Device-maker suffers setback in battle to have global dispute determined by English courts

31 May 2024

Sun Patent Trust seeks French courts’ first ever global FRAND decision in new Xiaomi suit

Paris Judicial Court has already expressed willingness to rule on SEP licensing disputes, but has never made a ruling

29 May 2024

Sisvel-Nordic Semiconductor IoT SEP deal tackles “urgent” issues in fragmented IoT market

Executives at the Norwegian semiconductor company – an advocate of component-level licensing and backer of the SEP regulation – say it was the first “plausible” solution

28 May 2024

Exclusive: Xiaomi and Sharp ink wireless SEP cross-licensing deal

The global agreement brings the companies’ 20-month dispute in China to an end

24 May 2024

Ericsson wins largest-ever Indian patent litigation damages award in SEP dispute against Lava

The Delhi High Court has highlighted the importance of meaningful FRAND negotiations in its ruling that Indian smartphone brand Lava could not use the doctrine-of-exhaustion defence. Now that Lava has appealed and the court has set up a confidentiality club, the patent community is watching keenly to see how this dispute will play out.

22 May 2024

Meet MPAI, the standardisation body for artificial intelligence data coding

The international nonprofit with 44 members – like Sisvel, ETRI, Stanford and MIT – is developing 17 standards and the IEEE-SA has already adopted five

16 May 2024

China’s SEP pool creation efforts require overseas input

Saturday Opinion: China needs to look beyond domestic subsidies for joint licensing of essential patents to really take off

11 May 2024

Chinese government encouraging companies to dip toes in home-grown SEP pools

However the latest efforts to spur the commercialisation of IP have been met with reluctance

10 May 2024

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