Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Another Huawei v. Amazon patent infringement lawsuit discovered: WiFi patent case in Mannheim, Germany

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This is a quick follow-up to a post from Monday, Huawei suing Amazon in Germany over WiFi patent infringement--Chinese lawsuit previously be...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Huawei suing Amazon in Germany over WiFi patent infringement--Chinese lawsuit previously became known

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A Huawei v. Amazon patent enforcement action in China already became known in October . I have since been trying to find out about similar ...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Huawei, OPPO announce patent cross-license agreement, reinforcing OPPO's reputation as willing licensee and Huawei's as fair and reasonable licensor

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A few hours ago, Huawei and OPPO announced a patent cross-license agreement. The identical announcement (apart from the order of company nam...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Patent holder DivX enforces injunction seeking Netflix shutdown in Germany, already asked Mannheim court to impose contempt fine--and ITC instituted investigation against Amazon, Vizio last week

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Netflix is watching the IP equivalent of a hardcore horror movie that would make Stephen King proud, and the scenery is Germany's Draco...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Huawei suing Amazon over patent infringement: first hearing to take place in China on December 8

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At a corporate presentation in June , Huawei emphasized that it would always seek to strike a reasonable balance between product business an...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Clouded in secrecy: presumptively Amazon- and Google-backed U.S. lobbying front (Coalition for Fair Software Licensing) sets new opacity record by not listing any members

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In the previous post I quoted from the official complaints of three Members of the European Parliament (all of them well-respected experts i...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Law firms like Wilmer, Perkins, Ashurst, Van Bael should decline to represent astroturfers after MEPs ask EU Commission to suspend access to EP for representatives of Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple-funded CCIA, other lobbying fronts

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There was a time when Big Tech companies and maybe even their outside counsel thought astroturfing--using lobbying fronts that pretend to sp...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

UK antitrust authority CMA publishes full text of Phase 1 decision on Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard: more detailed--but no more accurate--than the short version

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Today the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), the competition authority of the United Kingdom, published the full text (76 pages) of ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Whether Amazon instigates or draws antitrust scrutiny, it's always about avoiding price competition: abstract parallel between cloud software licensing and most-favored nation clauses

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This is the promised follow-up to yesterday's post, New Microsoft software licensing terms to take effect on October 1: revisions design...
Monday, August 29, 2022

New Microsoft software licensing terms to take effect on October 1: revisions designed to strengthen smaller cloud solution providers--and to address Amazon-orchestrated EU antitrust complaint

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This is only the second time in more than ten years for this blog to comment on enterprise software licensing. The first instance was about ...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

InterDigital announces patent license agreement with Amazon and confirms Apple agreement will expire by end of this quarter, Samsung next

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I just listened to large parts of patent licensing and research firm InterDigital's investor conference call for Q2 and looked at its re...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

France seeks to drag rest of Europe into senseless trade war with U.S. over ideologically-motivated digital services tax

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Yesterday, the United States Trade Representative (USTR)--which is the title of a presidential appointee at the rank of an ambassador (prese...