Standard setting organizations have for many years asked members to commit to license patents essential to use of standards on Fair, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory terms. Because SSOs have not defined explicitly what FRAND means, courts and regulators have been forced to interpret it. We have previously written on how standard …read more
The views expressed in this article are inspired by two recent decisions taken by the European Commission on April 29, 2014, the Motorola and the Samsung decisions. These decisions are the first Commission decisions concerning competition law enforcement in relation to standard essential patents. In essence the Commission has found …read more
One firm’s ability to break into the market for “bone mills” used in spinal-fusion surgery did not foreclose the possibility that medical device company Medtronic monopolized or attempted to monopolize the bone mill market, the U.S. Court of …read more
August 4 – A group of RBS bankers file a motion to toss market manipulation suits.
August 4 – Auto parts manufacturer executive Singo Okuda jailed for price-fixing
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