Bowman Heiden

February 1, 2021

Dr. Heiden is currently the Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP), which is a joint center for knowledge-based business development between University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology, and the Norwegian University for Science and Technology. He is also the Executive Director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at UC-Berkeley and co-chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law. Dr. Heiden was recently a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Standard Essential Patents.

Summary of article: “AI for Patent and Essentiality Review” by Katie Atkinson & Danushka Bollegala

January 23, 2023

An important step in the process of developing novel standards for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is to determine whether a patent held by a company is, or might be, required in order to practice the concepts of a given ICT standard. Patented inventions that prove necessary for the practice

International Pro-Competition Regulation of Digital Platforms: Healthy Experimentation or Dangerous Fragmentation?

December 14, 2022

Amelia Fletcher, Norwich Business School, and Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia. The increasing dominance of a small number of ‘big tech’ companies across a range of critical online markets has led to growing calls for the adoption of regulation to promote competition and ensure that market power

China’s Practice of Anti-Suit Injunctions in SEP Litigation: Transplant or False Friend?

November 5, 2022

In 2020, China abruptly became the largest grantor of anti-suit injunctions (ASIs), which are court orders that prevent the opposing party from beginning or continuing a proceeding in another jurisdiction. China’s use of ASIs, which were used to address patent litigation initiated in a foreign country, was explicitly supported by