What's new at 4iP?
Welcome to our monthly round-up of 4iP Council activities, where we highlight for you the most thought-provoking and insightful 4iP contributions to the European intellectual property rights debate. Here is the bite-sized round-up for February (and if you like it, subscribe here to get regular updates!).
Our focus on IP in Standards
Discover the pivotal role of the Internet of Things and cellular standards in driving the future of technology on our new 4iP Council’s website section “IoT and Cellular Standards Made Simple”. Dive into the fundamentals of IoT, unravelling the connectivity that powers smart devices and innovations from healthcare to industrial automation. Explore how cellular standards, from 1G to 5G, have revolutionized communication, enabling seamless integration across devices and networks.
We also published with the European Intellectual Property Teachers’ Network a booklet on “The Relationship Between Standards & Intellectual Property”. The booklet is freely available on 4iP Council’s website. will be a reference for academics and policymakers on an often misunderstood topic.
February was the month that the European Commission published its 2024 Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation. The Rolling Plan aims to increase the convergence of standards makers’ efforts to support EU policies, including IoT and cellular standards. We hope that the website and booklet will help inform readers’ understanding of the impact of these technologies on European policies - and vice-versa.
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Our focus on SME
In February, we hosted a webinar “SMEs and patent holdouts: how European SMEs fight back”, with Jari E. Veps?l?inen, Chairman of Fintrade-Mercer Group and Timothée Le Quesne, Co-founder & CEO at Energysquare, who explored strategies to manage potential infringement or patent holdout.
?Our popular podcasts see innovators and start-ups share their valuable insights into how IPRs are used strategically to boost innovation and business growth. These were:
You can find these episodes and a lot more here. Listen in to our upcoming webinar “Navigating Intellectual Property in Sustainable Fashion” with Ulrika Wennersten, Vice Dean for Education at School of Economics and Management and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Lund University; and Fernanda Donaire. It takes place on the 13th of March 2024 at 16:00 CET.
Case Law database
Continuing to make European IP judgments more accessible, we have translated into Chinese and Japanese summaries of decisions by national courts in Europe following the European Court’s seminal decision in the Huawei vs ZTE (Case No. C-170/13, a summary of which we also translated). And we added Chinese translations of summaries of UK Unwired Planet v Huawei ([2020] UKSC 37) and Japanese summaries of the “Pilot Study for Essentiality Assessment of Standard Essential Patents”, as well as the German IP Bridge vs Huawei (6 U 149/20) and Nokia vs Daimler (6 U 130/20) decisions. These have already been big hits with our readers! You can find all the translations on our Chinese and Japanese micro-sites!