My next interview is with Dragos Vilau, founder of Vilau | Associates in Romania. Dragos is an old comrade in arms from my Vringo days and was instrumental in helping develop

I submitted comments to the US Department of Justice’s call for comments that we previously discussed here.

My third interview is with an old friend and colleague from my Skadden days (well technically he was from Kramer, but we were co-counsel), Chris Colvin, patent litigation partner at Leitchman Law, and founder of a number of highly successful

I submitted comments to the US Department of Justice’s call for comments that we previously discussed here.

I submitted comments to the US Department of Justice’s call for comments that we previously discussed here.

I submitted comments to the US Department of Justice’s call for comments that we previously discussed here.

Apple’s long-term campaign to avoid paying FRAND SEP licensing fees continues unabated. In what has become a modus operendi, every time Apple’s license with a major SEP licensors – Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, InterDigital, Qualcomm – comes up for renewal, global warfare breaks out, and then after forcing SEP licensors to pay millions in legal fees, Apple settles for unknown, typically after being found by a court or the ITC to be an “unwilling” technology user who failed to negotiate in good faith.

Have SEP owners finally had enough? Readers of this blog will understand that many of the key automotive OEMs have been refusing for quite some time to take what, by any measure, is a very reasonable license to most of the key wireless SEPs.

Anyone who has observed standard essential patents (SEPs) for any length of time knows quite well that behind all the legalese there is a heavy dose of politics – both foreign and domestic.

Due to the size and complexity of computer code, the software is usually created by a team of programmers.