All about the Big Technology companies (Tech’s Frightful Five) – Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft and their allies including Intel and Cisco and how they are using their outsized economic might to influence legal and political policy with special focus on patents and SEPs from David L Cohen on the Kidon IP Blog.

Regulatory Capture Crosses the Atlantic [UPDATED]

UPDATE:  I am pleased to report that my post seems to have…

Regulatory Capture Crosses the Atlantic

This blog has long noted that large Big Tech implementers…

Big Tech and China, Inc. Rejoice in DOJ Draft SEP Policy Statement and FTC Speech

I am pleased that my article: Big Tech and China, Inc. Rejoice…

Apple’s Well-Funded Efficient Infringement Tilts the Competitive Landscape

Apple’s long-term campaign to avoid paying FRAND SEP licensing…

On Deceptive Apps and Practices: Unmasking the ACT App(le) Association

On July 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), under the…

The DOJ Antitrust Division: Regulatory Capture at the Expense of U.S. Interests

I am very pleased that my latest article on how Big Tech has…

The IEEE Ill-Advised 2015 IP Policy Continues to Fail

The IEEE's spectacularly misguided 2015 revisions to its…

Why the DOJ’s latest IEEE move is a giveaway to Big Tech at the expense of US technology leadership

I am very pleased that today IAM published my opinion piece on…

New Publication in The Licensing Journal

I am very pleased that my piece "A Compulsory 'License to All'…

Efficient Infringer Smacked by the EDVA – Will the Federal Circuit Finally Draw a Line in the Sand?

After a bench trial, the Eastern District of Virginia found…