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The Commission launches monitoring of patent settlements concluded between pharmaceutical companies
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- European Union
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- 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
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- European Union
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- 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
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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
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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
German Federal Court of Justice gives ruling on abuse of dominance of intellectual property rights
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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
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