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âSEPs are lifeâ but finite resources, geopolitical circumstances put proposed EU SEP Regulation on âtimeoutâ: European Commission’s Kamil KiljaĹski
Read more: âSEPs are lifeâ but finite resources, geopolitical circumstances put proposed EU SEP Regulation on âtimeoutâ: European Commission’s Kamil KiljaĹskiSpeaking at a SEP conference in Warsaw today, DG GROW IP deputy director Kamil KiljaĹski emphasized that the European Commissionâs decision to withdraw its proposed SEP regulation was only on a âtimeoutâ and that a large factor that contributed to this was a shift in geopolitical circumstances â in particular those in the U.S. and…
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BREAKING: Tesla loses pool rate determination appeal against Avanci and InterDigital in UK: Lord Justice Arnold got outvoted
Read more: BREAKING: Tesla loses pool rate determination appeal against Avanci and InterDigital in UK: Lord Justice Arnold got outvotedLord Justice Phillips and Lady Justice Whipple voted against the panel member with the most patent-specific experience, applying common sense.
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AA licensors win two AASIs in UPC’s Munich Local Division: Dolby, Sun Patent Trust defang Roku’s lawsuit in District of Massachusetts
Read more: AA licensors win two AASIs in UPC’s Munich Local Division: Dolby, Sun Patent Trust defang Roku’s lawsuit in District of MassachusettsContext: HP and TCL settled their disputes over HEVC (H.265) video codec patents through an Access Advance pool license last fall (part 2 of an October 30, 2024 ip fray article). Certain cases related to those disputes were pending in the Unified Patent Court (UPC). But certain cases brought by Access Advance licensors Dolby and…
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Podcast on SEP enforcement in Latin America with experienced Brazilian, Colombian patent litigators
Read more: Podcast on SEP enforcement in Latin America with experienced Brazilian, Colombian patent litigatorsBrazil and Colombia have become increasingly attractive venues for standard-essential patent (SEP) enforcement. In the past 12 months, Brazil has become a particularly popular venue for major international patent infringement disputes. In some of those cases, such as ZTE v. Samsung, the courts also awarded the patentee a preliminary injunction (PI) (February 13, 2025 ip…
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Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma file mRNA vaccine patent infringement lawsuits against Moderna in UPC, Switzerland, Japan, Canada
Read more: Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma file mRNA vaccine patent infringement lawsuits against Moderna in UPC, Switzerland, Japan, CanadaThe companies are seeking monetary relief and injunctions against Modernaâs SpikevaxÂŽ and mRESVIAÂŽ vaccinations, among others, alleging that the company is infringing their lipid composition patents in 30 different countries.
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An attempt to âdistractâ from its own infringement and âharassâ: Broadcom seeks to dismiss Netflix countersuit in Northern District of California
Read more: An attempt to âdistractâ from its own infringement and âharassâ: Broadcom seeks to dismiss Netflix countersuit in Northern District of CaliforniaThe motion to dismiss Netflixâs counter-efforts comes a week after the company failed to be granted a motion seeking to relate that same countersuit to a case Broadcom initiated in the Eastern District of Texas (and which was stayed in 2022).
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Samsung uses brute-force FRAND strategy: parallel antitrust/contract lawsuits against ZTE in U.S., UK, Germany
Read more: Samsung uses brute-force FRAND strategy: parallel antitrust/contract lawsuits against ZTE in U.S., UK, GermanyContext: When we became aware of a press release by the Frankfurt Regional Court on an antitrust action by an implementer against a Chinese standard-essential patent (SEP) holder, the fact that Samsung had previously sued ZTE in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales (EWHC) was the primary reason for which we were…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): case management and cost reimbursement decisions; new judges and cases
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): case management and cost reimbursement decisions; new judges and casesThis is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our February 22, 2025 UPC Roundup. An uneventful week at the UPC itself, with far more excitement sparked by a European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision that enables the UPC to order remedies in European Patent Convention (EPC)…
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