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Amazon’s ploy to derail ITC proceedings, and update on Amazon’s and Lenovo’s efforts to overturn or narrow Nokia’s and Ericsson’s preliminary wins
Read more: Amazon’s ploy to derail ITC proceedings, and update on Amazon’s and Lenovo’s efforts to overturn or narrow Nokia’s and Ericsson’s preliminary winsThe ITC has finalized its decision in one Ericsson-Lenovo case while it has not decided on the exact scope of its review in another. Amazon is hoping to overturn or narrow Nokia’s win.
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Access Advance launches video distribution patent pool
Read more: Access Advance launches video distribution patent poolThe new program covers internet streaming, offering the HEVC, VVC, AV1, and VP9 video codecs in a single license, and resolves the increasingly “hot” issue of video codec licensing in the video streaming market, CEO Peter Moller told ip fray.
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UPC’s Vienna LD hands down its first injunction: Chinese manufacturer’s traffic signal systems infringe Austrian innovator’s patent, must be recalled and destroyed
Read more: UPC’s Vienna LD hands down its first injunction: Chinese manufacturer’s traffic signal systems infringe Austrian innovator’s patent, must be recalled and destroyedContext: Unified Patent Court (UPC) infringement litigation is still heavily concentrated in the four German Local Divisions (LDs), followed by the Hague LD (January 7, 2025 ip fray article). But some plaintiffs have achieved good results by bringing cases in other venues. What’s new: Today the UPC’s Vienna LD, which had previously (late 2023) adjudicated…
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Europe has “one foot in the morgue”: Nokia and Ericsson to hold EU innovation summit today, call on withdrawal of “harmful” SEP regulation
Read more: Europe has “one foot in the morgue”: Nokia and Ericsson to hold EU innovation summit today, call on withdrawal of “harmful” SEP regulationThe event marks the first time Nokia and Ericsson have come together to organize and drive an initiative like this, which will highlight how Europe’s tech sector has “one foot in the morgue”, lagging those of China and the U.S., as well as how reforms such as the 5G Security Toolbox are “critical” for economic…
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Avago (Broadcom) actually won the UPC’s first-ever anti-antisuit injunction, paved the way for the Huawei v. Netgear AASI that came down two days later
Read more: Avago (Broadcom) actually won the UPC’s first-ever anti-antisuit injunction, paved the way for the Huawei v. Netgear AASI that came down two days laterNot only three but even four attempts to derail German (in two cases also UPC) patent enfrocement actions through U.S. antisuit injunctions have failed in recent years.
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BREAKING: Qualcomm settles with China’s Transsion (Africa’s smartphone market leader): Indian patent lawsuit withdrawn
Read more: BREAKING: Qualcomm settles with China’s Transsion (Africa’s smartphone market leader): Indian patent lawsuit withdrawnA Qualcomm v. Transsion lawsuit was withdrawn in India, suggesting a settlement. Transsion is a Chinese company whose various brands collectively have indisputable leadership in the African smartphone market.
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Registration now open for IP Dealmakers Europe + LF Dealmakers Europe (London, June 23-25): ip fray is official media partner
Read more: Registration now open for IP Dealmakers Europe + LF Dealmakers Europe (London, June 23-25): ip fray is official media partnerip fray is the media partner of the 2nd annual IP/LF Dealmakers Forums Europe (IP and litigation finance). The best rates are available for participants who register by the end of this month (January 2025).
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Nokia strikes another patent license deal (renewal) with Samsung: first 5G, now video technologies implemented in TVs
Read more: Nokia strikes another patent license deal (renewal) with Samsung: first 5G, now video technologies implemented in TVsTwo years after a 5G patent license agreement, Nokia has now also licensed its video codec patents to Samsung for its TVs.


