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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
In the context of its preliminary antitrust investigation into Apple's iPhone guarantee policies, the European Commission has confirmed that, in order not to infringe competition rules, suppliers should provide EU-wide warranty services, regardless of the EUEEA country where the product was purchased
In its Adjudication on Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd (30 June 2010), the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said that Orange's claim that its 3G network reached more people than competitors' networks could not be substantiated because it did not make clear whether it was referring to population or geographical coverage and because Orange could not show that the coverage data it had supplied for its competitors' networks was collected and reported on the same basis as its own
The FCC’s recent announcement that all use of wireless microphones in the 700 MHz band must cease as of June 12, 2010, will affect a wide variety of venues currently using high quality wireless microphone systems
The Digital Economy Bill (DEB) was released on 20 November 2009, published jointly by the UK Department for Business (BIS) and the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS
The European Court of Justice (the ECJ) ruled that O2 Holdings Limited and O2 (UK) Ltd. could not rely on their trademark rights to prevent the use of bubble imagery in a comparative advertisement by Hutchinson 3G UK Limited, as the advertisement was not misleading and did not cause confusion as to the origin of the services being offered
The new German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz or TMG) and the Ninth Amendment of the Interstate Treaty on Broadcasting (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag or RStV) went into effect on March 1, 2007
