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18 Mar 2021, 11:26 am
Thales could also lobby the French EU commissioner, Thierry Breton, who has so far been more sympathetic to Nokia and Ericsson's patent monetization interests than the concerns of the automotive and wider IoT industry over SEP abuse. [read post]
9 Mar 2021, 9:53 pm
By contrast, if the FTC has a unilateral-conduct issue with a company, it can't even issue an appealable decision (unlike the European Commission's DG COMP), but has to sue, and then there's room for appeals.Sen. [read post]
22 Feb 2021, 4:28 pm
Notably, Professor Hoeppner represented complainants against Google in the DG COMP investigation that resulted in the Google Shopping decision.When the Supreme Court of the United States allowed the Pepper v. [read post]
11 Feb 2021, 2:06 am
Yesterday evening by Central European Time, the European Commission's Directorate-General for the Internal Market (DG GROW) published (expand the part entitled "Group of experts on licensing and valuation of Standard Essential Patents") the long-awaited standard-essential patent (SEP) expert group report.When the expert group was formed in 2018, I was extremely skeptical. [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 5:29 am
Key Findings Introduction Consumption Taxes in Brief Consumption Tax Revenues in OECD Countries Value-added Tax Sales Taxes Excise Taxes Excise Tax Trends Conclusion Appendix (See PDF) Key Findings Consumption taxes are a significant source of revenue for governments across the world, making up 32.3 percent of tax revenues in OECD countries in 2019. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 7:53 am
Reuters just reported on my antitrust complaints to competition authorities in multiple jurisdictions, challenging the basis on which they don't allow tens of millions of app developers to publish COVID-related apps on their stores, no matter how legitimate those apps may be.In alphabetical order, these are the jurisdictions:Australia: Australian Competition and Consumer CommissionEuropean Union: European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP)Germany:… [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 11:41 pm
" That is a similar way to put it as what Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes told the press: "European Unity is not a strength when it is slow, cumbersome and bureaucratic; indeed it kills when it puts utopian ideologies over letting nation states protect their own citizens and best interests. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 10:00 pm
In November, ARIPO announced the appointment of a new Director General (DG). [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 1:00 pm
The question of a judge’s refusal to “unseize” herself was considered by the Ontario Court of Appeal in DG v. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 2:50 am
Vestager had a conflict of interest with respect to SAP. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 5:05 am
At about the same time, a Twitter user taking great interest in the App Store antitrust matters asked me whether I thought this report might affect the upcoming trial. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 1:47 am
Also, they may have to fear that Daimler will also settle with Nokia, at which point the suppliers will lose a co-complainant in the antitrust arena.European Commission / DG COMP: The increasingly-protectionist executive branch of the EU has been sitting on Daimler's antitrust complaint against Nokia for two years, seeking to protect Nokia and, by extension, Ericsson rather than Europe's automotive industry. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 11:24 am
Breton doesn't care.Atypically for a Frenchman, he doesn't even give a damn about his own country's economic interests. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 8:23 am
Apple preliminary injunction hearing will be held on Monday (September 28, 2020), but also the ongoing investigation of Apple's App store terms by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP).The EU investigation was instigated by Spotify, which has been running a "Time to Play Fair" website for a while, with no signs of others throwing their weight behind Spotify's cause. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 5:57 am
The court also understood that there are actually far more OEMs (in this case, car makers) than component makers out there, a simple numerical fact that undermines Nokia's efficiency argument.The court brushed aside Nokia's claim that patent exhaustion dynamics could have unacceptable practical consequences, or that a failure to account for patent exhaustion would result in double-dipping, given that any concerns could be satisfactorily addressed by the specific terms of a license… [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 1:03 am
It's a disgrace that Nokia sues Daimler despite Daimler's suppliers all being interested in taking a license to Nokia's cellular SEP portfolio on FRAND terms. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 6:30 am
I suspect that the Federal Cartel Office filed its amicus curiae brief with DG COMP's unofficial blessings.Follow @FOSSpatents Share with other professionals via LinkedIn: Share| [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 10:51 am
A friend sent me the report in the interests of transparency. [read post]
21 May 2020, 8:17 am
The courts would be free to disagree, but less likely to disagree with, say, DG COMP than with Daimler.Theoretically, a solution could also come from the legislature. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 4:27 am
” The Security Agreement grants Mostert a security interest in specified collateral. [read post]
