Qualcomm gets off lightly with near $1bn Chinese antitrust fine
Mobile chip giant Qualcomm has announced it will pay a fine of 6 billion yuan, which currently equates to just under a billion dollars, that has been imposed on it by a Chinese antitrust authority...
View ArticleEurope curtails frivolous patent wrangling
The European Union’s Court of Justice has set limits and procedures on how competitors in any given market are able to challenge each other on patent infringement grounds. The case in question refers...
View ArticleApple pays Ericsson to settle patent dispute
The patent dispute between Apple and Ericsson that has been running for the whole of 2015 has apparently been settled in Ericsson’s favour, with Apple agreeing to pay a lump sum and ongoing royalties....
View ArticleHuawei sues Samsung over 11 standard essential patents – full details
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is suing similarly huge Korean tech company Samsung for allegedly infringing 11 wireless communications and software patents. Using the standard ‘we think people should...
View ArticleMicrosoft sells mobile patents to Xiaomi, signs software bundling deal
Microsoft’s orderly retreat from mobile devices is turning into a rout with the news that it has sold nearly 1,500 technology patents to Chinese devices company Xiaomi. While the patent deal has had no...
View ArticleQualcomm defiant in the face of fresh monopolistic accusations
Mobile chip giant Qualcomm has been accused by the US Federal Trade Commission of abusing its FRAND patent position to manipulate the baseband market in its favour. FRAND stands for ‘fair, reasonable,...
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Qualcomm seeks US import ban on Apple iPhone
Qualcomm has filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) which claims Apple is infringing six of its patents enabling various features. The complaint is just another...
View ArticleQualcomm sues Apple some more – yay
Qualcomm has managed to dig up some more patents it reckons arch-enemy Apple has infringed upon and decided to turn that into three new legal actions. With Christmas coming and the year drawing to a...
View ArticleAmdocs and Openet settle baffling, endless patent dispute
After eight years of ensuring expensive holidays for their lawyers, rival telecoms software companies Amdocs and Openet have decided to call it a draw. An extremely short announcement from Amdocs said...
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Inside Ericsson
Ericsson invited me to hang out with them in Stockholm for a couple of days so I did and here’s what I got up to. Towards the end of Ericsson’s Q1 quarterly earnings call, Head of Marketing Helena...
View ArticleChina issues injunctions against most Apple iPhone models – that was quick
The week after the US arranged the arrest of a Huawei exec China has granted Qualcomm an injunction prohibiting the sales of most Apple smartphones in the country. Coincidence? Qualcomm and Apple have...
View ArticleQualcomm’s business model hangs in the balance as FTC case concludes
The US Federal Trade Commission accused Qualcomm of abusing a monopoly two years ago. Now a judge is set to decide if it was right to do so. The original accusations coincided almost exactly with the...
View ArticleNokia applauds its own progress with 63 5G wins
Nokia is proving to be its own biggest fan, parading around a list of accomplishments, from 5G contract wins to the number of patents it has filed across the last year. With a list including the likes...
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5G patent chest-beating is an unhelpful distraction
The constant propaganda sent out by the big kit vendors has recently moved onto 5G patents and the latest claims are more unhelpful than ever. A couple of weeks ago Huawei flagged up a report from the...
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Huawei leads the 5G patent race
A recent report aimed to sift through the confusing mess of information around standards essential patents (SEP) and concluded Huawei is the clear leader for 5G. Research firm GreyB got together with...
View ArticleCisco slapped with $1.9 billion patent fine
A US court has ordered IT networking giant Cisco to pay a whopping $1.9 billion for infringing four patents held by cybersecurity specialist Centripetal. According to court documents filed on Monday,...
View ArticleEricsson sues Samsung for un-FRAND-ly patent negotiations
With so much uncertainty in the world, it is somewhat reassuring to know that Ericsson and Samsung are still able to have their semi-regular patent disputes. This time, the Swedish kit maker has sued...
View ArticleHuawei has another intellectual property charm offensive
Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei has published the rates it charges as part of a drive to demonstrate how much effort it has put into R&D. The announcement accompanied the release of a while paper...
View ArticleEricsson and Samsung patent war ends in a boring truce
The only fun in covering patent disputes comes when there’s a clear winner, but Ericsson and Samsung aren’t even revealing the terms of their settlement. Late last year we heard Ericsson was suing...
View ArticleEricsson and Apple renew patent hostilities
Negotiations over patent fees have once more broken down between Apple and Ericsson so they thought it would be fun to sue each other instead. We are almost totally reliant on the FOSS Patents blog for...
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