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Before it wrapped up earlier this week, the antitrust trial between Epic Games and Apple reached a dramatic conclusion on Friday when Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, took the witness stand. Sitting behind a plexiglass barrier, Cook faced a barrage of skeptical questions from both Epic’s lawyer and the judge presiding over the case. Cook’s tenuous answers to Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, in particular, raised serious doubts about whether Apple’s App Store will emerge from this case intact.
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Epic, the video-game company behind
Fortnite, claims that Apple is violating federal antitrust laws by forcing iPhone apps to be distributed only through the App Store and by requiring app developers to pay an “Apple tax” of up to 30 percent of their sales of apps and in-app products on iOS devices. Last year, Epic balked at these restrictions and let
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Rarely must patent infringers demand their right to pay
royalties. But several multinational manufacturers have gone to
court to insist that they – and not other participants in the
supply chain – make payment of any patent royalties. From a
contractual perspective, judicial analysis of such claims has
focused on the non-discrimination prong of the fair, reasonable,
and non-discriminatory ( FRAND ) patent licensing
commitment. In other words, some manufacturers have argued, and
some courts and administrative agencies have agreed, that a
patentee s refusal to provide FRAND licenses at all levels of
On December 2
nd, amicus briefs in support of Smith
& Nephew and the United States were filed with the Supreme
Court in the
Arthrex cases. There were also several amicus
briefs filed in support of no party. Previous articles have
discussed the decision by the Federal Circuit, the
Supreme Court s grant of certiorari (currently docketed as 19-1434), and the initial briefs from Smith & Nephew
and the United States.
The amicus briefs present a wide range of arguments related to
whether or not Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) are principal
officers or inferior officers, and if they are principal officers
what remedy should apply. John Harrison, a professor at the University
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