With standard-essential-patent (SEP) damages discussions frequently focused on how to calculate a RAND rate, one can sometimes forget that not all SEPs are subject to [F]RAND obligations, which raises the issue whether and to what extent a reasonable royalty rate would be different between RAND and non-RAND encumbered patents. Last week, N.D. Cal. Judge Lucy
Georgia-Pacific
RANDomness – Much ado about Microsoft-Motorola
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Over the last several days, a lot of ink (and pixels?) have been spilled about Judge James L. Robart’s April 25 Microsoft v. Motorola RAND royalty-setting opinion. Here at the Essential Patent Blog, we’ve done an initial dive into Judge Robart’s opinion [LINK], posted a table showing his modified Georgia-Pacific analysis […