IAM - December 2025 In February 2025, the European Commission announced the withdrawal of its proposed SEP Regulation, referencing the impossibility of reaching an [...]

IAM – November 2025 New USPTO Director John Squires has taken several important steps to improve the inter partes review process since taking [...]

IPWatchdog – October 2025 “Royalty-free” is an appealing notion, especially when applied to the licensing of a patent essential to a standard. This [...]

Roberto Dini – September 2025 A detailed critique of the decisions by Germany’s Bundeskartellamt and the European Commission to give the green light [...]

LES Nouvelles – June 2025 The term “non-practicing entities” (NPEs) describes entities that own patents and whose principal activity is licensing them. NPEs do [...]

IP Watchdog – June 2025 The term “patent troll” has become ubiquitous in the IP world since it was first coined at Intel in the [...]

IAM – February 2025 The recent European Commission move to withdraw the SEP regulation was a welcome development. However, this is not because [...]

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice – February 2025 In an editorial published in May 2024,1 we examined the test for inventive [...]

LES Nouvelles – March 2024 During the LES USA & Canada 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago in October 2023, a panel of senior [...]

Digital Single Market and Artificial Intelligence - February 2024 While standards bodies like ITU and ISO/IEC have a long history of promoting innovation [...]