Roya Ghafele

Key Takeaway: The Unified Patent Court is no longer an experiment. With filings up sharply and practitioners increasingly confident in using the system, litigation before the UPC is developing its…

FRAND licensing is often presented as a technical exercise: find comparables, run the arithmetic, produce a number. But the panel on valuation and FRAND rate calculation at the OxFirst 12th IP and…

Summary: Senior judges from the UK and Germany used the OxFirst 12th IP and Competition Forum to discuss whether an interim license regime could provide a workable bridge in FRAND disputes—covering…

The Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) Regulation Proposal also known as the IP Action Plan formally issued by the European Commission today suggests groundbreaking changes to the standard essential…

Although a silent technological revolution is currently taking place in the tobacco industry, there is no publicly available data on patents that read on tobacco harm-reduction technologies. We…

In the aftermath of the landmark decision ‘Unwired Planet vs Huawei’, a series of other FRAND litigations have followed suit. Cases such as Conversant vs ZTE/Huawei, Philips vs TCL, TQ Delta v ZyXel…

The strategic management of IP requires a new understanding of what IP is and what role it can play in a corporate context. Understanding IP as an internal resource to a firm rather than a negative…

Building the Patent Fence The practice of IP management is a recent discipline. Traditionally, IP departments have been run by members of the legal profession. Often, they are under the supervision…

As reported on Kluwer Patent Blog,  the Supreme Court of England and Wales issued a key decision in the Case of Huawei and ZTE vs Conversant and Unwired Planet. Both lawsuits pertain to standard…