SWIPLit

Ninth Circuit Upholds First District Court Determination of FRAND Licensing Rate and Affirms $14.5 Million Damage Award

The Ninth Circuit has affirmed Microsoft’s $14.5 million jury verdict against Motorola, upholding the first federal bench trial decision setting a fair, abortion reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing rate. Armed with the court’s FRAND guidance, the jury found Motorola violated its commitment to license its H.264 (video encoding) and 802.11 (WiFi) standard-essential patents (SEPs) under […]

July 31, 2015 | 3 min read | Tagged: FRAND, Microsoft, Motorola, Ninth Circuit, RAND, SEP, SSO

Snell & Wilmer

Recent Decision Highlights Complex Interplay Between Standard-Essential Patents and FRAND Licensing Terms

Patents confer upon the owner of the patent the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention for a set period of time. Tensions arise when patented technologies are included as part of industry technical standards, creating standard-essential patents that are required for system interoperability for certain technologies. […]

October 15, 2012 | 5 min read | Tagged: Apple, FRAND, mandatory licensing, Motorola, Northern District of Illinois, patent, Seventh Circuit, standard-essential

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