Results for Duty to disclose within standards-setting organizations

Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp.

Case Number: CLB0208

Date: 12.01.2008

A participant in a standards-setting organization may breach a duty to disclose relevant patents to the standards-setting organization even if the policies of the standards-setting organization do not unambiguously set out such a duty. However, the scope of the remedy for breaching this duty may be limited to holding the relevant patents unenforceable only against products compliant with the standard created by the standards-setting organization.

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