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Federal judge throws out Roku’s FRAND and non-infringement DJ complaint against Dolby, Sun Patent Trust in Access Advance context
Read more: Federal judge throws out Roku’s FRAND and non-infringement DJ complaint against Dolby, Sun Patent Trust in Access Advance contextRoku is facing patent infringement lawsuits by Access Advance licensors and tried to attack the pool administrator with a U.S. antitrust case, which has now been thrown out.
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IP people often āhide in their cornerā: Atos IP head on the importance of visibility in boosting C-suite support, budgets
Read more: IP people often āhide in their cornerā: Atos IP head on the importance of visibility in boosting C-suite support, budgetsIn this interview, Yann Dietrich discusses how much Atosās perception of IP has changed since he first joined, how IP is not a ālegalā question but a ābusiness modelā question, and the increasing importance of trade secrets.
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Fraunhofer suing HMD in Unified Patent Court over standard-essential audio coding patents
Read more: Fraunhofer suing HMD in Unified Patent Court over standard-essential audio coding patentsYet another SEP holder is suing HMD: now it’s Fraunhofer’s turn. Two cases were lodged with the UPC’s Hamburg LD.
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BREAKING: SAP files its first offensive European patent infringement complaint in history, sues rival Celonis at UPC Dusseldorf
Read more: BREAKING: SAP files its first offensive European patent infringement complaint in history, sues rival Celonis at UPC DusseldorfFor the first time in its history of over half a century, SAP is asserting a European patent against a competitor, and it’s doing so in the UPC.
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Acer and Longhorn asserting 4G SEPs against truck maker PACCAR and its DAF brand in Texas and Germany
Read more: Acer and Longhorn asserting 4G SEPs against truck maker PACCAR and its DAF brand in Texas and GermanyPACCAR, a truck maker with a market capitalization at a level with Ford and GM, lacks cellular standard-essential patent licenses. It has been sued in Munich and Marshall, TX.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): first UK injunction, clarifications on evidence preservation, intermediate generalization, lots of new cases, and more
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): first UK injunction, clarifications on evidence preservation, intermediate generalization, lots of new cases, and moreThis is the new structure of our Unified Patent Court Roundup, which is now developing throughout the week. Quick explainer: You get a UPC Roundup of the same structure as always when the week is over, but now you can see it developing during the course of the week, giving you a second option (the…
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BLACK FRIDAY: Two court orders have marginalized the UK in global patent litigation, and it probably won’t come back short of joining the UPC
Read more: BLACK FRIDAY: Two court orders have marginalized the UK in global patent litigation, and it probably won’t come back short of joining the UPCOPINION Yesterday will go down in history as the day on which the High Court of Justice for England & Wales (EWHC) and the courts above it lost the largest part of the relevance they used to have in the global patent litigation arena. It took only two orders authored by German judges, both of…
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Munich court on SEP royalties: the higher, the better for innovation so long as products don’t disappear; top-down is wrong, Huawei v. ZTE outdated
Read more: Munich court on SEP royalties: the higher, the better for innovation so long as products don’t disappear; top-down is wrong, Huawei v. ZTE outdatedPresiding Judge Dr. Oliver Schoen of the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber has authored a SEP guidance document that takes bold and clear positions.



