Saturday, January 16, 2021

Samsung appeals Ericsson's anti-antisuit injunction from Texas to the Federal Circuit

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On Monday, Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted Ericsson an anti-antisuit pre...

Best outcome of impeachment for development of law: Supreme Court clarifies meaning of "high" in "high crimes and misdemeanors"

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After years of making pro-Trump comments ( except in connection with patent policy, where a couple of his appointees did terrible things), ...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Dusseldorf Regional Court stands by CJEU referral of patent licensing questions, Nokia's interlocutory appeal goes up to Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court

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While the four members of the panel discussion I published as a podcast earlier this week expressed a diversity of views, there was a conse...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Podcast on developments relating to component-level SEP licensing, particularly the referral of a set of questions to the CJEU by a German court

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About a year after my Brussels conference on the component-level licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) , I invited the members of t...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Judge grants in part Ericsson's motion for preliminary anti-antisuit injunction against Samsung's Chinese action

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In my last post of the year 2020, I criticized rather harshly the overreaching nature of Judge Rodney Gilstrap's temporary restraining o...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Stifling creativity, chilling innovation, and now even killing people: the EU needs to rethink its approach to industrial policy

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With VaxGate, Brussels--as a metonym for the EU--is going through its worst credibility crisis ever , while Brexit is already a success stor...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Compared to the EU's COVID VaxGate, Watergate was merely a transgression: two questions of life or death the EU can't answer satisfactorily

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I already mentioned in my first post this year about the EU's miserable failure to buy COVID-19 vaccines (as compared to the U.S., Cana...