Yesterday, the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (“ITC”) determination that certain Interdigital patents related to 3G CDMA technology were not infringed by Nokia and ZTE.  Recall that the ITC had reserved ruling on any RAND obligation defenses given its non-infringement finding (see our Feb. 24, 2014 post). ALJ Shaw’s Initial Determination had ruled on those defenses, finding that, among other things, InterDigital’s obligations arising from the ETSI IPR policy was to negotiate in good faith toward a license agreement and that InterDigital had negotiated in good faith notwithstanding Respondents arguments of bad faith based on InterDigital seeking an injunction, seeking to negotiate a worldwide license rather than a single country license and allegedly offering unfairly discriminatory rates given different effective royalties offered to ZTE and Nokia (see our July 30, 2013 post).