Microsoft Tells Court That Without FRAND, Standard-Setting Would Be "Blatant Antitrust Violation"

The US court of appeals in Philadelphia recently ruled that intentional deception of a private standard-setting organization, when used to acquire or maintain monopoly power, can be an illegal monopolistic practice. The ruling reversed a trial court ...

In February 2012, Apple sued Motorola to block the latter's alleged standardization skullduggery of the 3G/UMTS technology. This column examines the charges and explores the issues of patent rights; standards-essential patents; and what are fair, ...

A New Jersey federal district court recently threw out Broadcom's suit against Qualcomm, in which Broadcom charged that Qualcomm'sreneging on promises to make its technology available to standard adopters on "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory" (...