Tom Cotter
Associate Dean for Research & Planning
Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law

Prof. Cotter Quoted in Law360 Article on Microsoft v. Motorola Decision

Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Law360 article, entitled "3 Takeaways from 9th Circ.'s Motorola FRAND Decision," on the impact of a ruling by the 9th Circuit in Microsoft v. Motorola, a case in which Microsoft alleged that Motorola breached its obligation to license certain patents on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms. Cotter states, among other things, that the decision is consistent with "an emerging consensus in the U.S. and in other countries that the owners of standard-essential patents should not be able to obtain injunctions and that a FRAND royalty should not include the effect of the holdup value."