David Muus

David Muus studied law at Groningen University. David further completed post-graduate education in IP and IT law at Grotius Academy and has received education in communication protocols, with a focus on mobile- and IP-networks.

Before joining Sisvel in 2015, he acted as IP counsel and patent licensing specialist at the Dutch incumbent telecom operator KPN. At Sisvel, David started out from Turin and London where he ran Sisvel’s LTE patent pool and its successor the Mobile Communication Program (MCP). Since 2019 David works from Sisvel’s Barcelona office at the head Sisvel’s cellular team, where he is responsible for all of Sisvel’s cellular SEP licensing activities. This includes Sisvel’s bilateral licensing and litigation activity under the cellular SEPs Sisvel controls, as well as the management of two recently launched patent pools: the 5G Multimode Program, the next generation of the MCP which now focusses on 5G enabled consumer electronics, and Sisvel’s Cellular-IoT program, focused on licensing IoT devices enabled with the LPWAN standards Narrowband-IoT and LTE-M.

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

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

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

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
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