In light of last year's patent auctions of historic proportions and Google's ongoing attempt to purchase Motorola Mobility, major players in the mobile industry are attempting to assuage anti-trust jitters at standards bodies such as the IEEE.

In a previous interview with TheStreet.com, Alexander Poltorak compared the Kodak patent auction to similar companies - among them, InterDigital. Now that InterDigital has cancelled the sale of its patent portfolio, Dr.

Kodak has officially declared bankruptcy, which removes a lot of the uncertainty potential buyers had about purchasing its patents.

One of the first and biggest IP news stories of the new year is Kodak's last-ditch attempt to avoid bankruptcy through patent sales. But as GPC's Alexander Poltorak explains in a recent interview, the patents' many licensees may be more of a liability than an asset. ("Kodak's Patent Pivot May Not Avert Bankruptcy", TheStreet.com, January 4, 2012)

The ITC's ruling on the Apple/HTC patent litigation narrowed an earlier ruling, finding that some HTC smartphones using Android infringed only two claims of one Apple patent rather than multiple claims of two separate patents.

GPC's Alexander Poltorak was one of the patent experts interviewed by The New York Times regarding the International Trade Commission's recent ruling in the Apple-HTC litigation.

The International Trade Commission (ITC) is scheduled to issue a ruling on the patent dispute between Apple and smartphone manufacturer HTC.

The European Commission has asked Samsung for information on the enforcement of "standards-essential patents" in an effort to determine whether there are antitrust issues at play in the ongoing patent infringement battle between Samsung and

GPC's Alexander Poltorak commented on a request from the European Commission for information from Apple and Samsung regarding standards-essential patents in the mobile telephony sector (