Patent & IP news for April 29, 2017

Qualcomm reduces quarterly forecast by $500 million as Apple stops license fee payments from www.fosspatents.com

Bloomberg reports that Apple confirms having "suspended [license fee] payments [via its contract manufacturers in China to Qualcomm] until the correct [fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory = FRAND] amount can be determined by the court" and that ...

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Axiom of the day — Claims construed the same for purposes of assessing patent validity and patent infringement from www.717madisonplace.com

In the recent oral argument of TVIIM v. McAfee, the appellant argued that claims must be construed the same way for purposes of validity as they are for infringement.  The Federal Circuit acknowledged that principle ...

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IPO Webinar on Defend Trade Secrets Act from www.patentdocs.org

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "DTSA: One Year In" on May 2, 2017 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Ken Corsello of IBM Corp., Randy Kay ...

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Webinar on Halo Electronics v. Pulse Electronics from www.patentdocs.org

LexisNexis will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "The Halo Effect on Patent Infringement Risk: Should You Revisit Your Corporate Strategy for Mitigating Risk?" on May 2, 2017 at 1:30 pm (EDT). Steven Auvil ...

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