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FTC recommends privacy practices for mobile apps

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2013

A new Federal Trade Commission report urges mobile app platforms and developers to better inform consumers about their privacy practices. Mobile app

A carrier is not a country

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 29 2012

Addressing a lower court’s claim construction and summary judgment of non-infringement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that more limited claim construction found a lower court was correct and sustained the summary judgment ruling

Commission affirms no violation finding as to four patents and remands to ALJ with respect to one patent in Inv. No. 337-TA-745

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 1 2012

On August 24, 2012, the Commission issued a Notice of its decision to affirm the ALJ’s finding of no violation as to U.S. Patent Nos. 5,636,223 and 6,272,333 patents and to reverse the finding of violation as to U.S. Patent No. 6,246,697 in Inv. No. 337-TA-745, Certain Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music and Data Processing Devices, Computers and Components Thereof, involving Complainant Motorola Mobility and Respondent Apple

Apple smart phone patents found invalid by High Court of England and Wales

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 8 2012

In HTC Europe Ltd and another v Apple Corporation 2012 EWHC 1789 (Pat), on 4 July the High Court of England and Wales declared three Apple patents to be invalid: two patents cover aspects of touch-screen technology, including the “swipe to unlock” feature, and the third provides the ability to change languages for text messages

Posner to AppleMotorola: no damages, no injunction, no trial

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2012

Judge Posner (of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit), sitting by designation, derailed Apple’s and Motorola’s expected patent liability trial when he found that both parties provided insufficient evidence to support either damages or injunctive relief

“Just say no to ‘CRACKBERRY’”

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2012

In a precedential opinion, the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Board) sustained three opposition proceedings based on grounds of likelihood of confusion, and four opposition proceedings based on grounds of likelihood of dilution by blurring, in favor of Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM), the maker of BLACKBERRY-brand mobile devices

Might the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) become a new enforcement authority for China’s competition laws?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • March 26 2012

In addition to MOFCOM, SAIC and NDRC, the three major enforcement authorities for the anti-unfair competition and anti-monopoly laws, it seems the MIIT might also become a regulator of competition in the telecommunications sector

NDRC and SAIC’s actions in 2011 and prospects in 2012

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • March 26 2012

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) are the two authorities in charge of investigation and supervision of “monopoly” agreements and abuses of dominant market position

ITC institutes Inv. No. 827, Certain Portable Communication Devices

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 13 2012

On January 13, 2012 the ITC voted to institute an investigation of certain portable communication devices

New complaint filed by Graphics Properties

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 18 2011

Graphics Properties Holdings Inc. filed a letter on November 17, 2011, requesting that the International Trade Commission conduct an investigation under section 337 covering Certain Consumer Electronics and Display Devices and Products Containing Same