This year is off to a strong start on the patent litigation front, with Ericsson vs. Transsion and Wilus/Sisvel vs. Asus as our subjects this week. However, it is also worth bringing attention to the EU’s new intellectual property study, which seeks to chart the realities of filing enforcement actions in the bloc. This would be a prelude to some sort of overhaul, in the turbulent geopolitical climate. The EU framework, snappily called ‘Follow-up study on the application of the Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights,’ runs for 186 pages. It is marked as final, which means that this will be the version pointed to by future work. A 2017 investigation found that there were major discrepancies in…