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A Reckoning for Automotive Holdouts? or Are SEP Holders Getting Fed Up?

Readers of this blog will understand that many of the key…

Updated Practice Note on SEP Licensing Management

I am very pleased that Practical Law of Thomson Reuters released…

New Empirical Data Demonstrates Continued Failure of IEEE 2015 Patent Policy

I have written extensively about the many negative effects of…

On Deceptive Apps and Practices: Unmasking the ACT App(le) Association

On July 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), under the…

Cars or Car-tels?

In high tech, famous OEMs have a long history of playing…

The DOJ Antitrust Division: Regulatory Capture at the Expense of U.S. Interests

I am very pleased that my latest article on how Big Tech has…

The IEEE Ill-Advised 2015 IP Policy Continues to Fail

The IEEE's spectacularly misguided 2015 revisions to its…

Disclosures and Enforceability of Standard-Essential Patents: An Overview

  I am very pleased that my chapter comparing how three…

Why the DOJ’s latest IEEE move is a giveaway to Big Tech at the expense of US technology leadership

I am very pleased that today IAM published my opinion piece on…

Implementer Subterfuge Comes to Japan

There is something about standard essential patents that encourages…