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Intellectual property enforcement gets support from European Parliament

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • October 19 2010

The European Parliament has voted through a report expressing support for stronger enforcement of intellectual property rights throughout the European Union

The Commission launches monitoring of patent settlements concluded between pharmaceutical companies

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
  • -
  • January 30 2010

The Commission has confirmed that on 12 January 2010, on the basis of EU antitrust rules, it addressed requests for information to certain pharmaceutical companies asking them to submit copies of their patent settlement agreements

Commission accepts commitments from Rambus to cap memory chip loyalty rates

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
  • -
  • December 31 2009

On 9 December, the Commission announced its decision to accept an offer made by Rambus Inc, a California based chip maker, to lower royalty rates on certain patents for its dynamic random access memory ("DRAM") chips

Commission closes formal proceedings against Qualcomm

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • December 31 2009

The Commission announced on 24 November 2009, that it has closed formal proceedings against Qualcomm, a US chipset manufacturer, for alleged breaches of Article 82 EC (now Article 102 TFEU

Commission consults on commitments offered by Rambus

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • June 16 2009

The European Commission has issued a consultation on the commitments offered by Rambus in connection with the Statement of Objections sent to Rambus in July 2007 detailing the Commission’s preliminary view that Rambus was abusing its dominant position contrary to Article 82 of the EC Treaty by charging unreasonable royalties for patents for technologies used in Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips

Commissioner Kroes welcomes progress on pan-European music licensing following online commerce roundtable

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union
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  • June 3 2009

European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes has welcomed progress made towards pan-European music licensing following discussions in the Online Commerce Roundtable

German Federal Court of Justice gives ruling on abuse of dominance of intellectual property rights

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Germany
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  • May 11 2009

Germany's Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) has ruled that a company holding essential patents for a technology standard can be considered dominant, but that refusing to license its patents does not of itself constitute an abuse

Preliminary ruling by European Court of Justice gives important interpretation of Trade Mark Directive

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, France
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  • April 27 2009

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has given a preliminary ruling on a matter of law which gives an important interpretation of the Trade Mark Directive