With the US DoJ declaring EU-approved Licensing Negotiation Groups (LNGs) “illegal buyers cartels,” the US suddenly pulling support for a UK AI infrastructure trade deal, and now the announcement that the European Parliament (EP) plans to sue the European Commission (EC) over the latter’s decision to withdraw its controversial patents legislation proposal, there is an awful lot of turbulence behind the scenes in the intellectual property realm. Unfortunately, getting anyone to speak on the record about these happenings is essentially impossible. Nonetheless, we have the following details on good authority, which we will weave together now. In terms of a brief timeline, at MWC, we laid bare the debacle that was the EC’s Standards Essential Patents (SEP) proposal – a…