EC’s SEP Proposal Undermines Open Innovation
Experts believe the European Commission’s SEP proposal undermines innovation. Patrick McCutcheon, managing director of IP Europe, a coalition of R&D-intensive organizations whose inventions are protected by patents, has said the European Commission’s (EC’s) standard-essential patents (SEPs) proposal not only threatens the business models of IP Europe’s members, which include Nokia, Ericsson, and Orange, but “the […]
EU’s SEP Regulatory Framework and the Future of Intellectual Property Rights
The Fatty Fish Editorial Team takes a look at the EU’s SEP regulatory framework and the future of Intellectual Property Rights.
The CHIPS Act and the Need for Strong IP Protection
The Fatty Fish Editorial Team takes a look at the lack of strong IP protection language in the CHIPs and Science Act, which may result in innovators being less motivated to take risks.
What Is Fair, Reasonable, and Nondiscriminatory? It Depends
The Fatty Fish Editorial Team takes a look at what is fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND), and shares a piece from IAM Media which opines that “FRAND is in the eye of the beholder” and how that can play out in the telecom industry.
The Harmful Impact of Patent Trolls
According to the Electronic Frontier Federation, in the first three quarters of 2022, 64% of all patent lawsuits were filed by patent trolls, and in the high-tech space, patent trolls filed 88% of all lawsuits. A patent troll is a person or business that buys patents from other companies, files lawsuits against other businesses to […]
Patent Eligibility Reform Is Needed
The Fatty Fish Editorial Team explores why a patent eligibility reform has been a topic of debate for years as the current patent eligibility standards are outdated and leads to too many patent infringement lawsuits being filed.
The Global Effort to Devalue IP – Part One
In part one of our series on threats to intellectual property, we explore the consistent global effort to minimize the value of patents, if not to invalidate them altogether, by technology implementers. Our first example of such a scheme is the introduction of a concept called “smallest saleable compliant implementation,” which seeks to break down a patented platform or system into its smallest components in order to dilute the value of a patented technology solution.
A Primer on Intellectual Property Technology
This primer on Intellectual Property (IP) terminology will help introduce readers to essential terms and concepts that will come up often in IP discussions.
The Great Siege of Qualcomm: How Three Waves of Assaults on Qualcomm from 2013 to 2020 Helped Strengthen US Technology Leadership – Part 3
Looking at how healthy and well-positioned Qualcomm is today, especially as a decade of R&D investments and fundamental technology bets are beginning to bear fruit with the commercialization of 5G, it would be easy to forget how many challenges the San Diego tech giant has managed to overcome over the course of the past seven […]
The Great Siege of Qualcomm: How Three Waves of Assaults on Qualcomm from 2013 to 2020 Helped Strengthen U.S. Technology Leadership – Part Two
Looking at how healthy and well-positioned Qualcomm is today, especially as a decade of R&D investments and fundamental technology bets are beginning to bear fruit with the commercialization of 5G, it would be easy to forget how many challenges the San Diego tech giant has managed to overcome over the course of the past seven […]
Something is Afoot at the Circle Koh: FTC v. Qualcomm Just Went off the Rails, but there is no Reason to Panic
I don’t usually reference Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure in the titles of articles I write about serious matters, but today’s topic is so bizarre and beyond judicial norms that it warrants an exception. I am referring to, as the title suggests, Judge Koh’s inexplicable decision to side with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against […]
Opinion: It Only Took a Few Days of Testimony for the FTC’s Case Against Qualcomm to Fall Apart – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how, two years ago, when the FTC first filed its case against Qualcomm in US District Court, outgoing FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen took the extraordinary step of drafting a dissent letter that outlined just how unjustified and ill-advised the FTC’s case against Qualcomm was. She wasn’t wrong. […]
