Paranoid Android? EU Commission vs. Google’s mobile Android OS

Yesterday the EU’s antitrust watchdog laid formal charges against Google for anticompetitive conduct concerning its Android mobile Operating System (‘OS’). This blog takes a look at the background and possible consequences of this case.

Carl Mair • April 21, 2016

Enter the Dragon: Rockstar bidco and the birth of the Patent Troll 2.0

When Google bid pi (3.14159) billion USD in 2011 for the 6000 patents of defunct Canadian telecom giant, Nortel, it probably thought it could afford to be silly. However the competition wasn’t playing around.

Carl Mair • November 22, 2013

Has the Smartphone Patent War Turned Political or Is It Business As Usual?

Has the smartphone patent war turned political after a recent US veto of an ITC decision against Apple, or is it just business as usual?

Carl Mair • August 16, 2013 • 1 comment

Is the Future ‘open’ for Web video?

Over the last three years Google and MPEG-LA have been engaged in a patent battle over the future of Web video. The companies have now announced that the battle is over. This blog looks at what the battle was about, who won and the prospects for the future

Carl Mair • March 21, 2013

The uneasy interface between patent law and competition policy

According to the EU Commission, Samsung’s exercise of some of its patents over 3G technology was anticompetitive. This blog explores the reasons behind that decision and the likely effect on the smartphone patent wars.

Carl Mair • January 17, 2013

Can cross-licensing end the smartphone patent wars?

Is the recent patent cross-licensing agreement between Apple and HTC a paradigm for a way out of the smartphone patent wars? This blog examines why this is unfortunately not the case.

Carl Mair • November 15, 2012 • 1 comment

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