Major German FRAND Decision; Correction to Webinar Time; Blogging Break

I am on my way to Asia for a couple of conferences, so I will be brief.  First, as noted in the post below, I had the incorrect European/U.K. time listed for our forthcoming webinar on German FRAND cases.  It will be 16:00 CET, 15:00 UK time, and 9:00 am U.S. Central Time.  And it now looks like we will have a lot to talk about, since according to ip fray there was a major preliminary decision yesterday from the Munich Higher Regional Court in HMD Global Oy v. VoiceAge EVS GmbH & Co. KG, that appears to agree in large part with European Commission's position as stated in its now-famous amicus brief in this case.

Second, I plan to take a blogging break next week while I participate in the Asian conferences.   The first, to take place in Macau on Monday and Tuesday, is the 20th IEEM Intellectual Property Seminar, on "Proportionality in Intellectual Property Law."  (IEEM is the Institute for European Studies of Macau, or Instituto de Estudos Europeus de Macau in Portuguese.)  I will discussing one of my current book projects, Wrongful Patent Assertion:  A Comparative Law and Economics Analysis.  Then on Wednesday, I will be speaking in Hong Kong on extraterritorial damages for IP infringement (one of several topics to be covered in my other current book project, Remedies in Intellectual Property Law) at IEEM's IP Programme 2024:  Professional Intellectual Property Update.

Nov. 14 Webinar on German FRAND Cases and Related Developments

I will be moderating the event described in this announcement:

Join us for "German FRAND Cases: The EC’s Amicus Brief and Other Developments" on Thursday, November 14, 2024, | 16:00 (Central European Time) | 15:00 (Greenwich Time) | 9:00 a.m. (U.S. Central Time)

This one-hour webinar will focus on the developing German case law concerning FRAND-committed standard-essential patents (SEPs); the possible impact of the European Commission’s amicus brief in the pending HMD Global Oy v. VoiceAge EVS GmbH & Co. KG case; and a comparative look at both SEP litigation and the use of amicus briefs or observations in IP disputes outside the European Union.

Speakers include: Prof.Dr. Peter Georg Picht (University of Zurich), Professor Tom Cotter (University of Minnesota), and Erik Habich (Ph.D. candidate, University of Zurich), coeditors of the recently-released edited volume FRAND: German Case Law and Global Developments (Edward Elgar 2024), as well as Judge Hubertus Schacht (Munich Regional Court), Lord Justice Richard Arnold (Court for Appeal for England and Wales), and Professor Jorge Contreras (University of Utah)

Please note:  I had the Central European and U.K. time wrong when I posted this announcement earlier this week.  It is now corrected:  16:00 CET, 15:00 U.K. time, 9:00 a.m. in Minnesota.