Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Nokia's choice of software patents asserted against Daimler exposes pretext for refusing to license automotive suppliers

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PaRR 's EU antitrust reporter Khushita Vasant received information from two sources according to which a third round of mediation talks...
Friday, February 21, 2020

French court may hold ETSI FRAND declarations to be binding contracts to the benefit of third parties: cross-jurisdictional ramifications

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Two weeks ago, the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (TJP), which was known as the Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI) until the turn of the year, ...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Mediation between Nokia and Daimler as well as its suppliers fails definitively: European Commission must act swiftly and forcefully

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This afternoon I broke the news on Twitter that the mediation process between Nokia and Daimler as well as various of its suppliers failed d...

Nokia and its trolls are losing left and right: LG defeats Conversant case in Munich over Nokia patent two days after Nokia itself lost to Daimler

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This is a dreadful week for Nokia on the patent assertion front. A pathetic Nokia patent was held non-essential (thus non-infringed) by the ...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Qualcomm is one undecided judge away from getting FTC's antitrust win reversed by Ninth Circuit: observations on today's hearing

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in FTC v. Qualcomm this morning. Just as I expected , Qualcomm...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Nokia loses first German patent infringement case against Daimler: weak patent not essential to LTE

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The devaluation of a dying company's overrated patent portfolio has begun today. At 9 AM local time, the Mannheim Regional Court announc...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Nokia's piecemeal injunction strategy against Daimler's demand of €4.5 billion bond or deposit: what's Nokia's objective in auto patent battle?

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This is my third post on Thursday's Nokia v. Daimler patent infringement trial in Munich. I've previously commented on Nokia's ...