Intellectual Property Rights in the Telecom Industry

Introduction Intellectual property is anything created by the human mind, including ideas, innovations, industrial models, trademarks, songs, symbols, names, brands, etc. Intellectual property rights (hereinafter referred to as ‘IPR’) are the legal rights granted to the inventor or creator to safeguard his or her invention or production for a certain period of time. These legal rights grant the inventor, […]

Facebook Wins Current Round In A Telecommunication Patent Fight Against Unilock 2017 LLC

Recently, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has sided with Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, Inc., and its subsidiary WhatsApp, LLC over Uniloc 2017, LLC in cross-appeals from two IPRs (inter partes reviews). The issue revolved around the asserted patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,724,622, and separately for a similar U.S. Patent […]