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This Week in Washington IP: Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains, Promoting Investments into Climate Innovations, and Establishing the Next Generation Telecommunications Council

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, in the Senate, the Commerce Committee will hold an executive session to debate the Next Generation Telecommunications Act and a hearing focused on actions Congress can take to secure critical supply chains in semiconductors. Japan cooperation in key areas of emerging technology.

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New EU Regulatory Regime for SEPs Will Upend Mobile Telecommunications Sector

IP Watchdog

The European Union is considering a new regulatory regime for the licensing and litigation of standard essential patents (SEPs) that will destabilize the global telecommunications market.

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Government Must Reform the ITC to Keep Pace with Innovation and Curb Trolls

IP Watchdog

In 2001, six years before the iPhone appeared, a futurist named Ray Kurzweil wrote that humankind would cram 20,000 years of technological progress into the century that had just begun.

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This Week in Washington IP: Open Source Cybersecurity Solutions, Civil Capabilities for Space Situational Awareness and Using AI for Effective RegTech

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Science Committee convenes an executive session on Wednesday to deliberate over a pair of bills that would direct the Federal Communications Commission’s activities on establishing universal telecommunications services.

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Exploring the Differing Views of the ITC and CAFC on ETSI Licensing Declarations

IP Watchdog

focusing, in particular, on the CAFCs findings regarding interpretation and performance of the contractual obligation associated with the licensing declaration utilized by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as set forth in the ETSI IPR Policy. Lenovo (United States), Inc.

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The O2’s Transformation Sets the Stage for LegalTechTalk 2025

Complex Discovery

The venue, rebranded as The O2 in 2005 after the telecommunications company acquired naming rights, opened in 2007 and quickly ascended to global prominence. Workshops and keynotes will focus on tangible strategies to integrate emerging technologies, from document automation to AI-driven litigation analytics.

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CAFC Affirms Obviousness Ruling Invalidating KPN’s Network Access Management Patent Claims

IP Watchdog

Vidal affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) invalidation of several patent claims to technologies for managing access to telecommunications networks. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday, December 2, issued a ruling in Koninklijke KPN N.V.