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August 21
And Amazon is becoming more vocal in support of curbing the rights of US patent owners. Go figure. https://t.co/WXZt74uG79
August 19
Only a cynic would suggest it was anything more than coincidence that Amazon is now getting a lot more vocal about… https://t.co/XXZrqr7hyT
August 19
It will be interesting to see how many US tech companies actively and openly cooperate with this investigation. https://t.co/U5QWBiGbNu
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Ericsson brings lawsuits against French smartphone maker as CIPO targets free riders
Ericsson filed patent infringement lawsuits in Mannheim and Dusseldorf on Monday against Wiko after, the Swedish telecoms giant claimed, four years of licensing negotiations had failed to produce a deal. The lawsuits accused Wiko of infringing ten patents that relate to 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technology and include a number of standard essential patents (SEPs). The suits came amid what...
IAM exclusive: Google IP head Lo jumps to Facebook
IAM can exclusively reveal that Google IP head Allen Lo is joining Facebook in a major move in Silicon Valley IP circles. Lo will effectively replace Sam O’Rourke who left the social media giant earlier this year after ten years as the company’s IP head. Lo joined Google in early 2012 from Juniper Networks taking over from Michelle Lee who went onto become head of the USPTO.
The top IAM blog stories so far in 2017
It’s summertime in the UK – kind of, anyway – and so things are slowing down at IAM for the next month. Some of us are heading off for a bit of R&R, while others are finally catching up on all those emails. If something big happens in the world of IP, you can be sure that we’ll cover it on here, but the blog will not be running at full steam as it does normally. We...
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