“A better model for determining essentiality, in the author’s opinion, is a probabilistic model that tries to estimate the likelihood of a portfolio to be infringed, valid and/or essential.” In recent ...

“A ‘motion pass rate’ or ‘Accepted Rate’ metric may provide a more accurate indication of the strength of a company’s contributions [to a standard]. A high acceptance rate gives at least some ...

March 27, 2025 - Standard-essential patents (SEPs) are highly valued in any patent portfolio. To build a robust SEP portfolio, it is critical to follow practices that survive the Examiner's scrutiny ...

Litigating patents that are essential to technical standards requires a careful consideration of antitrust rules. Sabine Agé and Amandine Métier of Véron & Associés, Klaus Haft and Tobias Hahn of ...

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Standard-essential patents aren’t providing as much leverage in the smart-device wars as Google may have hoped when it paid $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility. Apple scored ...

Since it was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, the incandescent filament lamp had played the leading part in the illumination field for more than a century. However, in the 1990s, Nichia Corporation ...