DOJ Backs Standardized Patent Fight Limits
Licensing clashes involving Disney and Samsung are the latest venues for the Trump administration’s effort to steer disputes over patents tied to industry standards away from antitrust law, Christopher Yasiejko reports.
The DOJ this month used Samsung’s suit against semiconductor company Netlist to double down on its position that disagreements over reasonable-and-nondiscriminatory—RAND—patent-licensing terms are best handled under patent and contract law. It also stepped into Disney’s lawsuit against patent owner InterDigital last fall over key video compression patents used in streaming.
At the center of both cases is a longstanding question in tech ...
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