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Apr. 9, 2014

Michael W. De Vries

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Michael W. De Vries

De Vries, with co-counsel Adam Alper, scored a major victory last year, taking on Innovatio IP Ventures LLC over the particularly thorny matter of standard essential patents and RAND licensing.

Owners of standard essential patents, which are key to industry standards, are generally required to license them based on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms - commonly called RAND - when they participate in the standards development process.

Innovatio had acc...

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