A Solution to Chinese Courts' Aggressive Overreach

A Solution to Chinese Courts' Aggressive Overreach
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In an alarming new affront to American sovereignty, Chinese courts are now attempting to prohibit American courts from adjudicating American patents for technologies such as wireless communications. 

This new legal tactic is known as an anti-suit injunction (ASI). In several recent disputes, Chinese courts have used it to attempt to dictate global licensing royalty rates for inventions patented around the globe.

Those cases include recent disputes between Ericsson and Samsung, between the U.S. research and development business InterDigital and the Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi, and between Sharp and another Chinese smartphone business, Oppo.

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