In In re Cellect, 81 F.4th 1216 (Fed. Cir. 2023), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a later-expiring patent can be invalid for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) in view of an earlier-expiring,...more
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The High Court of Justice in London recently issued its third judgment on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) rate for a license to cellular standard-essential patents (SEPs). In the two prior UK FRAND...more
At a high level, the top-down approach is a simple two-step method to calculate the FRAND rate owed to a particular SEP licensor. First, the appropriate aggregate royalty for a given standard (that is, a reasonable price for...more