The App Association and the Fair Standards Alliance (FSA), in conjunction with the Deutsches Institut für Normung, has published a set of guidelines on the licensing of standard essential patents. The ...
France Brevets has granted its first near field communication (NFC) licence outside the mobile phone industry. Japanese optical product manufacturer C ...
Vienna-based law firm Binder Grösswang is bolstering its intellectual property and IT practice with the addition of Michael Horak. He leaves IP boutiq ...
After seven years, Siemens has climbed to the top of patent applicants at the European Patent Office. Beat Weibel, chief IP counsel of Siemens, talks ...
Before his appointment as a Supreme Court judge, David Kitchin presided over the global licence decided in the Unwired Planet vs. Huawei case at the C ...
Women working in intellectual property still expect a trade off between building a family and career success, according to a global survey by World In ...
Yann Dietrich has left patent holding France Brevets to join the in-house team at Atos as head of IP strategy and development. Atos is a listed French ...
UK patent and trademark attorney firm Haseltine Lake has merged with Leeds-based Kempner & Partners. New firm, Haseltine Lake Kempner, has 34 partners ...
The Austrian government has announced a twofold reform for the patent attorney community. Training and qualifications are to be restructured and the r ...
The Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office has released its annual report for 2018. According to the report, structural and personnel changes ...
Four weeks after Audi and Porsche accepted a licence from Avanci, the VW Group has now also signed an agreement with the patent pool. However, it is u ...
The 10th senate of the Federal Court of Justice is an instance in European patent law. But the court will now get a new senate. Sources suggest it wil ...
Three quarters of EPO staff are willing to go the extra mile to help the European Patent Office succeed. But a staff survey shows a great deal of diss ...
Judge Colin Birss expects connected cars be a new and important field in the ongoing SEP/FRAND debate. And, a well-known figure in the patents circuit ...
According to several sources, Audi and Porsche have agreed on a global licence for connected car patents with patent pool Avanci. Volkswagen is also s ...
Christina Petersson is the new Chief Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO) at telecommunications company Ericsson. She succeeds Gustav Brismark. Having ...
