standards-development organization (SDO) by the holder of a patent essential to a standard relating to the manufacture of the … obligation to disclose SEPs. Following the SEP holder's assertion of the undisclosed patent against a competing generic … patent. The alleged infringer also brought antitrust claims against the SEP holder, alleging monopolization in violation of …

Patent pledges — public commitments to limit the enforcement or other exploitation of one’s patent rights — are …. Following initial work that sought to classify and understand patent pledges as a distinct category of firm behaviour, this … paper — following a workshop held in September 2017 — identifies a range of recent developments in the evolution of patent …

diminish the value of patent-related commitments made by participants. In these cases, the intervention of public law …

intellectual property law, former Department of Justice lawyers and chief economists, a former executive official at the Patent and … exception may arise if district court jurisdiction is lacking, the patent is valid and infringed, and the public interest favors …

An extensive literature exists regarding the patent disclosure and licensing commitments made by participants in … SEPs pertaining to the standards studied. NPEs initiated 64% of all SEP cases and 77% of all unique patent …

intellectual property (IP) strategy, including CDN$30 million for the formation of a Canadian “Patent Collective.” This paper … that appreciable technology development by Canadian firms is not likely to be achieved through the proposed patent … defensive patent networks. The paper recommends that the proposed Canadian patent collective avoid the acquisition and …

around the world: antitrust/competition law and patent law. (A subsequent volume will focus on international trade, copyright … Standardization Damien Geradin; Part III. Patents and Standards; Part III - Introduction - Patent and Antitrust Law: An Introduction …

Patent holders are, with increasing frequency, making public promises to refrain from asserting patents under certain … conditions, or to license patents on terms that are “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory” (FRAND). These promises or “patent … to make expenditures and adopt common technology platforms without the fear of patent infringement. But despite their …